[CLUE-Tech] bash - find, xargs, chmod

[Keith Hellman]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:43:40PM -0700, Lynn Danielson wrote:
> 'Frustrating that this should work and xargs doesn't.  I tried
> quoting the the default argument operator "{}" with no success.
> Getting rid of the the -i and {} didn't help either.  It still
> failed on the unmatched single quote.  But find's exec handled
> it fine.
> 
Pure speculation:  find probably sets up and runs the -exec
parameters explicity; thus avoiding shell parsing of tokens.  xargs
probably uses system() or invokes shell (/bin/sh -c) on the commands it
forms.

The devil's in the details :^)
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