Robert McWilliam wrote:
> The escaped semi colon just marks the end of the command to -exec, as
> you figured. Each time find gets a result, it runs the commands in the
> -exec options replacing the {} with the path to the result (there are
> other things, e.g. inode number, that you can substitute in with
> different symbols).

Neat!  Thanks for your quick and clear explanation, Robert.  I'm 
beginning to appreciate just how powerful the CLI can be!

Best wishes
--
Diana



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