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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Using "find" and "-exec rm" ... Just no luck :( Post 302347879 by jlliagre on Wednesday 26th of August 2009 07:26:03 PM
Old 08-26-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by methyl
It uses "rm -f" (files) rather than "rm -rf" (directories)
"rm -rf" removes files too so can't be the issue.
Quote:
You need double quotes round the curly braces to preserve spaces.
You don't need these double quotes, spaces are already preserved without them so this can neither be the issue.

Code:
$ touch "a b"
$ find . -type f -name "* *" -exec ls -l {} +
-rw-r--r--   1 jlliagre jlliagre       0 Aug 26 23:23 ./a b

 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

lessecho

LESSECHO(1)						      General Commands Manual						       LESSECHO(1)

NAME

       lessecho - expand metacharacters

SYNOPSIS

       lessecho [-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ...

DESCRIPTION

       lessecho is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard output.  But any argument containing spaces is enclosed in quotes.

OPTIONS

       A summary of options is included below.

       -ox    Specifies "x" to be the open quote character.

       -cx    Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.

       -pn    Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.

       -dn    Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.

       -mx    Specifies "x" to be a metachar.

       -nn    Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.

       -ex    Specifies "x" to be the escape char for metachars.

       -fn    Specifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an integer.

       -a     Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted.  The default is that only arguments containing spaces are quoted.

SEE ALSO

       less(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

       Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Availability	    | SUNWless	      |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Interface Stability | Volatile	      |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES

       Source for less is available on http://opensolaris.org.

							     Version 418: 02 Jan 2008						       LESSECHO(1)
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