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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Using "find" and "-exec rm" ... Just no luck :( Post 302349421 by jlliagre on Tuesday 1st of September 2009 03:56:57 AM
Old 09-01-2009
As I wrote, I have no problem accepting my opinion being challenged and I would be surprised but grateful to anyone proving I'm wrong in that case.

However, there is currently absolutely no evidence anyone, including the open poster, is experiencing a different find(1) behavior than the only one that I consider technically possible.

The OP didn't run the simple script I suggested him to do to figure it out. I tested the very same OS the OP is using, Ubuntu, and the quotes weren't required. You failed to cite an OS where quote are required when the path contains spaces and one you tested didn't behave the way you were expecting.

I have thus no reason to change my mind about what I still consider a urban legend.

To clarify, I'm not against the idea some exotic shell implementation might require quoting the curly braces. I'm just telling neither files having embedded spaces nor the find command implementation play any role in that hypothetical requirement.
 

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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT

open

OPEN(1) 							     Linux 1.x								   OPEN(1)

NAME

       open - start a program on a new virtual terminal (VT).

SYNOPSIS

       open [-c vtnumber] [-s] [-u] [-l] [-v] [--] command command_options

DESCRIPTION

       open will find the first available VT, and run on it the given command with the given command options, standard input, output and error are
       directed to that terminal. The current search path ($PATH) is used to find the requested command. If no command is specified then the envi-
       ronment variable $SHELL is used.

   OPTIONS
       -c vtnumber
	      Use the given VT number and not the first available. Note you must have write access to the supplied VT for this to work.

       -s     Switch to the new VT when starting the command. The VT of the new command will be made the new current VT.

       -u     Figure out the owner of the current VT, and run login as that user.  Suitable to be called by init. Shouldn't be used with -c or -l.

       -l     Make the command a login shell. A - is prepended to the name of the command to be executed.

       -v     Be a bit more verbose.

       -w     wait for command to complete. If -w and -s are used together then open will switch back to the controlling terminal when the command
	      completes.

       --     end of options to open.

NOTE

       If open is compiled with a POSIX (Gnu) getopt() and you wish to set options to the command to be run, then  you	must  supply  the  end	of
       options -- flag before the command.

EXAMPLES

       open can be used to start a shell on the next free VT, by using the command:

       open bash

       To start the shell as a login shell, use:

       open -l bash

       To get a long listing you must supply the -- separator:

       open -- ls -l

SEE ALSO

       login(1), doshell(8), switchto(1).

AUTHOR

       Jon Tombs <jon@gtex02.us.es or jon@robots.ox.ac.uk>
       -w idea from "sam".

19 Jul 1996							       V1.4								   OPEN(1)
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