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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Using "find" and "-exec rm" ... Just no luck :( Post 302349525 by methyl on Tuesday 1st of September 2009 07:17:08 AM
Old 09-01-2009
Hi jlliarge. I cited Sunos 4.1.1 based on a comment I made in an old script, though I no longer have a copy of the O/S. This is not the only time I have come across the problem.

The wikipedia section on "find" mentions "In some shells, the {} must be quoted". I can't argue with that.

find - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


The wiki looks pretty accurate bar not mentioning differences between "/pathname" and "/pathname/" in some unixes.


In this comprehensive GNU-based generic man page for find(1) it specifically states to quote '{}' . It also warns about security hole in the POSIX implementation of "find ... -exec" which I did not know about.

http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?find

This independent researcher has gone to town on checking what works in various versions of find. See under "Embedded {}". He describes some quite radical different behaviours of {} which does support my case.

http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/find/
Last edited by methyl; 09-01-2009 at 09:06 AM.. Reason: Further example of examples
 

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POD2WIKI(1p)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					      POD2WIKI(1p)

NAME

       pod2wiki - A utility to convert Pod documents to Wiki format.

SYNOPSIS

       pod2wiki [--style --noerrata --help --man] podfile [outfile]

	   Options:
	       --style	    wiki style (defaults to wiki. See --help)
	       --noerrata   don't generate a "POD ERRORS" section
	       --help	    brief help message
	       --man	    full documentation

DESCRIPTION

       This program is used for converting Pod text to Wiki text.

       Pod is Perl's Plain Old Documentation format. See "man perlpod" or "perldoc perlpod".

       A Wiki is a user extensible web site. It uses very simple mark-up that is converted to Html. For an introduction to Wikis see:
       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

OPTIONS

       podfile
	   The input file that contains the Pod file to be converted. It can also be stdin.

       outfile
	   The converted output file in wiki format. Defaults to stdout if not specified.

       --style or -s
	   Sets the wiki style of the output. If no "style" is specified the program defaults to "wiki". The available options are:

	   wiki
	       This is the original Wiki format as used on Ward Cunningham's Portland repository of Patterns. See http://c2.com/cgi/wiki

	   kwiki
	       This is the format as used by Brian Ingerson's Kwiki: http://www.kwiki.org

	   usemod
	       This is the format used by the Usemod wikis. See: http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl

	   twiki
	       This is the format used by TWiki wikis.	See: http://twiki.org/

	   tiddlywiki
	       This is the format used by the TiddlyWiki.  See: http://www.tiddlywiki.com/

	   textile
	       The Textile markup format as used on GitHub. See: http://textile.thresholdstate.com/

	   wikipedia or mediawiki
	       This is the format used by Wikipedia and MediaWiki wikis.  See: http://www.mediawiki.org/

	   moinmoin
	       This is the format used by MoinMoin wikis.  See: http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinWiki

	   confluence
	       This is the format used by Confluence.  See: http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/

       --noerrata or -noe
	   Don't generate a "POD ERRORS" section at the end of the document. Equivalent to the "Pod::Simple::no_errata_section()" method.

       --help or -h
	   Print a brief help message and exits.

       --man or -m
	   Prints the manual page and exits.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

       Please refer to the DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY in Pod::Simple::Wiki.

AUTHOR

       John McNamara jmcnamara@cpan.org

COPYRIGHT

       X MMIII-MMVIII, John McNamara.

       All Rights Reserved. This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified under the same terms as Perl itself.

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