Significance of '{}' \;

Shell_Learner · #1 (**permalink**) 4 Weeks Ago

What is the Significance of '{}' \; in UNIX?

pogdorica · #2 (**permalink**) 4 Weeks Ago

You can read about that with "man find" and -exec option.

royalbull · #3 (**permalink**) 4 Weeks Ago

FIND-BASED:

{} is used for passing find output to exec as an argument.
; is for terminating the exec part ; its escaped by \ so that bash ignore it or bash would take is as an subsequent command.

example
find /usr -name lib -print -exec ls -l {} \;

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