Re: Portability of find(1)

[Earnie Boyd]

Akim Demaille wrote:
> 
> Hi People!
> 
> I'm looking for information on the portability of find(1).  Please,
> send me everything you know.  In particular, I think I'm understanding
> that `{}' is portably replaced by the argument only when alone, i.e.,
> exactly
> 
>         find ... {} ...
> 
> and not
> 
>         find ... "foo: \{\}" ...
> 
> At least on DU.

find . -name \*foo -exec echo "\{\} {}" \;

gives
  \{\} somefile-foo
on Cygwin and
  \{\} {}
on HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.

Earnie.

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