Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 01:03:30 +0200 From: Jan Demter <jan@demter.de> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/find find.1 Message-ID: <20030729010330.1861404d.jan@demter.de> In-Reply-To: <200307282112.h6SLCFYc025079@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <200307251732.h6PHWhTT046305@repoman.freebsd.org> <3F258412.2030205@tcoip.com.br> <200307282112.h6SLCFYc025079@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:12:15 -0400 (EDT)
Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
> <<On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:14:10 -0300, "Daniel C. Sobral"
> <dcs@tcoip.com.br> said:
>
> > Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
>
> >> State that in -exec ... ; the semicolon should be quoted if invoked
> >from> a shell.
>
> > Wouldn't that be "escaped"?
>
> Not necessarily. Escaping is one kind of quoting, but not the only
> one.
Isn't it exactly the other way round? e.g.:
%find /proc -name status -exec grep whatnot {} ";" #quoted, escaped
%find /proc -name status -exec grep whatnot {} \; #escaped
Not that this a too important issue...
Jan
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