Hi,

I am trying to change some UID's. I googled around and found the
following command to use:
find / -user 1000 -print -exec chown -h 5000 {} \;
It worked great. But I don't understand what the "{} \;" does. Can
anyone tell me what that is?

Also, I tried to put it in a script, I got error message "missing
argument". What should I do to put it in scripts? Here's how it showed
up in the script:
#/bin/sh
find / -user 1000 -print -exec chown -h 5000 {} \\\;

Thanks a lot,

Lu

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Lu <lsun91125@yahoo.com> wrote:
quote:

> It worked great. But I don't understand what the "{} \;" does.


man find will tell, anyway the {} bit get subsituted with the
file/directory find just found and \; means "here the previous
command ends".
quote:

> Also, I tried to put it in a script, I got error message "missing
> argument".


Do not escape the ''.

Davide

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Thanks a lot Davide. I made it to work in the script. I don't need any
more escape character.

Lu

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On 8 Dec 2003 07:06:05 -0800, Lu
<lsun91125@yahoo.com> wrote:
quote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to change some UID's. I googled around and found the
> following command to use:
>    find / -user 1000 -print -exec chown -h 5000 {} \;
> It worked great. But I don't understand what the "{} \;" does. Can
> anyone tell me what that is?
>

man find
Find replaces the {} with each filename that it finds, and the \;
marks the end of the "-exec" arguments.

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