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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Using "find" and "-exec rm" ... Just no luck :( Post 302348767 by methyl on Saturday 29th of August 2009 03:22:34 PM
Old 08-29-2009
jilagre, it may be a shorter list if you nominate those unix and Linux Operating Systems of which you have personal experience and you can prove that it works. I don't recall a post nominating one.
Solaris 10 and HP-UX 11 onwards are already definites.

There was a reason that I deduced that "{}" was needed - it has happened to me before.

My interpretation of "man find" is that the filename list resulting from the "find" is made available to the exec command as {} . It can appear on the exec line multiple times which can be handy for renaming files. The debate starts when the filename contains space characters. I maintain that many versions of unix or Linux through the ages require "{}" , and I use that syntax out of habit.

I haven't forgotten that the "find ... -exec" was a quick way to crash System V release III with "too many forks". That was when I started using alternative techniques, but I do still find some use for "find ... -exec".

There was somebody posting earlier who had Tru64 (aka DEC unix). I can't be sure whether it worked on that one beacause all my library scripts contain "{}".

Other posters may wish to try the commands on their Operating System and contribute to this debate. Please be careful with "rm" and use "echo" where possible just in case {} does not do what you expect (like what happened to the original poster in this thread).
 

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DH-EXEC-SUBST(1)						      dh-exec							  DH-EXEC-SUBST(1)

NAME
dh-exec-subst - Debhelper executable file substition scripts SYNOPSIS
#! /usr/bin/dh-exec src/libfoo-*.so.* debian/foo-plugins/usr/lib/foo/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/ DESCRIPTION
Being a sub-command of dh-exec(1), this program must not be ran directly, but through dh-exec, which automatically runs all available sub-commands if run bare; or explicitly with dh-exec --with=subst. It is a wrapper around the various other substitution helpers, and will pipe the input file through all the available substitution helpers. It is up to these scripts to do the actual work. When a helper fails to expand a variable within its input, it will leave it as-is, so that later in the pipeline it can perhaps be expanded by another program. SCRIPTS
dh-exec-subst-env Substitutes any of the available, exported environment variables into its input. It does not do any kind of filtering: whatever is available in the environment, will be available for substitution, however unsafe that may be. dh-exec-subst-multiarch Attempts to expand any of the variables known to dpkg-architecture(1), mostly useful for multi-arch support. The command will query dpkg-architecture(1) directly, and does not rely on environment variables set (as the called program will prefer already set environment variables anyway). ENVIRONMENT
DH_EXEC_SCRIPTDIR Indicates which directory the command-specific scripts should be sought for. If not specified, scripts will be searched for in /usr/share/dh-exec/. FILES
$DH_EXEC_SCRIPTDIR/dh-exec-subst-* The various scripts for the higher-level program. SEE ALSO
debhelper(1), dh-exec(1) AUTHOR
dh-exec-subst is copyright (C) 2011-2012 by Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>. 2012-05-03 DH-EXEC-SUBST(1)
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