[CLUE-Cert] Sys Admin Test

[Sean LeBlanc]

Unfortunately, the voucher DIDN'T work for me. I gave the
number I received via email, and the (rather rude) person
on the other end of the line told me that the status on that
number was either expired or used. I ended up just paying the
full amount rather than waiting until I could sign up for
another voucher that may or may not work. Hopefully, it works
better for others...


On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 17:00:14 -0600
Lynn Danielson <lynn.danielson at clue.denver.co.us> wrote:
> Michael James Robbert wrote:
> > 
> > ... Then the \; is just escaping the ; that is required after the command.
> > 
> > Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> > > I took the test today, and squeaked by with an 80%. 
> 
> Congratulations, Sean!  How did the voucher work for you?
> 
> > > some syntax I'm not familiar with. One of the questions
> > > dealt with a command like this:
> > >
> > > find / -name core -exec rm -f{}\;
> > >
> > > I think I understand the first part, although I've never
> > > used the -exec flag with find. But the {}\; is what I
> > > don't understand. I might have the syntax incorrect: it's
> > > possible there was a space after rm -f and before the last
> 
> Yeah, I think a space is needed between -f and {}.  I believe 
> you need to escape the final semicolon so that you can use
> semicolons to pass multiple commands to find with the -exec 
> argument.  Alternatively, you can quote the semicolon.
> 
> A variation which I tend to prefer to find's exec switch is 
> to pipe find to xargs, e.g.,
> 
> find / -name core | xargs rm -f 
> 
> The xargs command is also supposed to be able to use the
> {} symbols to indicate argument substitution, but I haven't
> been able to get this feature to work.
> 
> Lynn
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