On Jan 25, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Corey Chandler <lists at sequestered.net> wrote: > On 1/25/10 9:33 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: >> >> When using the -exec action with the ";" terminator, the constructed >> command line always contains the path for exactly one matched file. >> Try it. Run "find /usr -exec echo {} ;" and see that you get one >> path per line and output begins almost instantly. > > Don't forget to backspace delimit the semicolon; the proper way to get > data out of this example would be: > > find /usr -exec echo {} \; And don't forget to escape the curly braces which are expanded in some shells: # find /usr -exec echo \{\} \; -Ross