On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 09:10:51PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
> Nick Croft wrote:
> >
> ...snip....
>
> > -exec mv {} somedirectory \;
>
> Yep, it is in the archive {:-).
> Hmm, I really need something like mhonarc for multiple directories.
>
> There is a way of quoting that I can never remember that makes -exec
> work
>
> something like -exec \{ }\ ;
-exec \{\} \; (or "-exec '{}' ';'" or some combination)
you just have to stop the braces and comma being interpreted by the
shell
also, providing you are under the command line length, this is usually
faster:
mv `find . -print` somedirectory
since it only starts one find and one mv, instead of one mv per file
--
- Gus
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