Re: [Bug-tar] Excluding directories based on content

[Eric Blake]

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According to Joerg Schilling on 11/19/2006 12:37 PM:
>   
>>> find . -type d -exec echo {}/FILENAME \;
>>>
>>> will print a "{}/FILENAME" for each directory.
>> The `echo' command has nothing to do with our question.
> 
> It seems that you did not understand the problem:
> 
> find expands "{}" only if an argument is containing only the two characters 
> "{}".

Or, worded a little nicer, POSIX states that it is implementation-defined
how find behaves when -exec is handed an argument containing more than
just {}.  In other words, the above example is exploiting a non-portable
implementation-specific behavior, but it is not wrong to do that, unless
you care about portability to other platforms.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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