03-06-2002
'find' command question
my solaris text talks about the 'find' command... it further goes to talk about an "action" used with the find command.
I am completely confused as to what the {} do with the find comand.
the explanation is this: "A set of braces, {}, delimits where the file name is passed to the command from the prceding expressions."
Now what does this mean? It makes no sense to me.
an example they give is the following:
$ find ~ -name core -exec rm {} \;
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hal-find-by-capability
hal-find(1M) System Administration Commands hal-find(1M)
NAME
hal-find, hal-find-by-capability, hal-find-by-property - search HAL global device list
SYNOPSIS
hal-find-by-capability --capability capability [--help]
[--verbose] [--version]
hal-find-by-property --key key --string value [--help]
[--verbose] [--version]
DESCRIPTION
The hal-find commands, hal-find-by-capability and hal-find-by-property, search the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) device list by speci-
fied criteria and displays results on the standard output. hal-find-by-capability searches by capability, such as volume or block. hal-
find-by-property searches by property, such as block.is_volume or volume.disc.has_audio.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
--capability capability HAL device capability to search for.
--help Display list of options.
--key key The key to the property that is the basis of the search.
--string value The string value associated with the property that is the basis of the search.
--verbose Verbose mode.
--version Display version and exit.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWhalr |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Volatile |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
hald(1M), attributes(5), hal(5)
SunOS 5.11 22 Aug 2006 hal-find(1M)