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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Using "find" and "-exec rm" ... Just no luck :( Post 302355035 by methyl on Monday 21st of September 2009 09:37:40 AM
Old 09-21-2009
Hi jiliagre, point taken (at last!). The exact space character in the filename is your issue. We don't know exactly what triggered the fault, only that quoting the braces fixed it. We don't know that the character was a actually a space character.

I do understand the documented normal behaviour of current "find ... -exec" and the passing of one argument via '{}'.

I have had the issue myself in the past with exact space characters in mainstream unix and have now traced the version tree of "find ... -exec" for what it is worth. Due to a parallel issue with "-exec" ("too many forks") I mostly used a construct which avoided "-exec" for large numbers of files. The variant just composed the command line using "normal" shell substitution and then executed the command line in parallel. The current "-exec" does not behave like this.

I too can find no current mainstream unix or Linux with the same variant documented and for completeness I'd be quite interested in any shell construct which interfered with '{}' in this context.

Right fix, wrong reason!
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

caca-config

caca-config(1)						      General Commands Manual						    caca-config(1)

NAME

       caca-config - script to get information about the installed version of libcaca

SYNOPSIS

       caca-config [ --prefix= DIR] [ --exec-prefix= DIR] [ --version ] [ --libs ] [ --cflags ]

DESCRIPTION

       caca-config  is	a  tool  that  is  used  to  configure and determine the compiler and linker flags that should be used to compile and link
       progams, libraries, and plugins that use libcaca.

       The use of caca-config is deprecated. The more generic tool pkg-config should be used instead.

OPTIONS

       --cflags
	      Print the compiler flags that are necessary to compile a program or library that uses libcaca.

       --exec-prefix=DIR
	      If specified, use DIR instead of the installation exec prefix that libcaca was build with when computing the output for the --cflags
	      and --libs options.  This option must be specified before any of the --cflags and --libs options.

       --libs Print the linker flags that are necessary to link a program or library that uses libcaca.

       --prefix=DIR
	      If  specified,  use PREFIX instead of the installation prefix that libcaca was built with when computing the output for the --cflags
	      and --libs options.  This option is also used for the exec prefix if --exec-prefix was not specified.  This option must be specified
	      before any of the --cflags and --libs options.

       --version
	      Prints the currently installed version of libcaca on standard output.

EXAMPLES

       gcc -o main.o $(caca-config --cflags) -c main.c
	      is how you might use caca-config to compile a C source file for an executable program.

       gcc -o my_app $(caca-config --libs) main.o util.o
	      is how you might use caca-config to link compiled objects into an executable program.

SEE ALSO

       pkg-config(1)

AUTHOR

       The libcaca library was written by Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net>.

       This manual page was written for sdl-config by Branden Robinson, originally for Progeny Linux Systems, Inc., and the Debian Project. It was
       adapted to libcaca by Sam Hocevar.

libcaca 							    2003-11-22							    caca-config(1)
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