Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 02:48:36PM -0200, Antonio Alberto Lobato wrote: > > > > # find /var/log -type f -exec echo -n > {} \; > > > > Why find create a file called "{}", instead to erase files contents? > > Oi! > > From the find manpage: > > -exec command ; > Execute command; true if 0 status is returned. All > following arguments to find are taken to be argu > ments to the command until an argument consisting > of `;' is encountered. The string `{}' is replaced > by the current file name being processed everywhere > it occurs in the arguments to the command, not just > in arguments where it is alone, as in some versions > of find. Both of these constructions might need to > be escaped (with a `\') or quoted to protect them > from expansion by the shell. The command is exe > cuted in the starting directory. > > Try replacing the ">" with "\>" > > Ate mais, > Pedro
Thanks, but... It does not work. I already had tried. Tom _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com