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 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/