[ale] find command

David Corbin dcorbin at imperitek.com
Sun Feb 24 08:05:06 EST 2002


I always escape the brackets myself.  Maybe that will help.

find . -name "*.pdf" -exec script x=\{\} \;


Tommie M. Jones wrote:

>I have a find command that looks something like this
>
>find . -name "*.pdf" -exec script x={} \;
>
>Unfortunately it does not recognize {} as being magic file replacement
>characters because of the '=' sign.  Is there anyway to force it to see
>these.
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