01-24-2006
$ ls
test.log tmp1 tmp3
$ find . -name "tmp*"
./tmp1
./tmp3
$ find . -name "tmp*" -exec echo {} " is the file" \;
./tmp1 is the file
./tmp3 is the file
-exec - the command following -exec is executed against the every file found through find command
{} - this can be used in the place of file name in the -exec command because we are not sure what is going to be file name in the command while exectuing the command... say for example, for rm command we need to mention the file name but we don't know the file name, hence we say -exec rm {}... at the time of execution {} will be replaced with the current file of find command.
\; - is just syntax, I don't see any special reason for it, may be I don't know as well... I think it is just mandatory to use in the end along with -exec...
another example :
$ find . -name "tmp*" -exec mv {} {}.bkup \;
is equalent to find all tmp files and mv <filename> <filename>.tmp
you can use {} any number of times to represent the file name.
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
cdbs-edit-patch
CDBS-EDIT-PATCH(1) CDBS Documentation CDBS-EDIT-PATCH(1)
NAME
cdbs-edit-patch - create or edit a CDBS simple-patchsys.mk patch
SYNOPSIS
cdbs-edit-patch patchname
DESCRIPTION
cdbs-edit-patch creates or edits patches for use by the CDBS simple-patchsys.mk patch system. For more information about CDBS please see
the documentation under /usr/share/doc/cdbs/.
When patchname exists, cdbs-edit-patch will set up a temporary working source tree, apply all patches up to and including patchname in lex-
icographic order, and spawn an interactive shell for the developer. The developer can then edit files in this working tree. When the
developer is done and exits the shell, cdbs-edit-patch updates patchname to reflect the changes made. To abort the process from the inter-
active shell, exit with a nonzero exit value.
When patchname does not exist, cdbs-edit-patch will assume that a new patch should be created. As with the above scenario, cdbs-edit-patch
will first create a temporary working source tree and apply all patches up to the new patch in lexicographic order. When the shell is
quit, cdbs-edit-patch will create patchname.
AUTHOR
CDBS was written by Colin Walters and others. cdbs-edit-patch was written by Martin Pitt. This manual page was written by Peter Eisen-
traut based on the dpatch-edit-patch(1) manual page.
SEE ALSO
CDBS documentation in /usr/share/doc/cdbs/, /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/simple-patchsys.mk, dpatch-edit-patch(1), quilt(1)
Debian 5 Feb 2006 CDBS-EDIT-PATCH(1)