[ubuntu-uk] rsync chgrp problem - advice, please?

[Robert McWilliam]

On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 07:46:08 +0100, "luxxius"
<luxxius at googlemail.com> said:
>     I do have one remaining question.  In the following compound
>     command
>
> find ~/music -type f -group diana -exec sudo chgrp root {} \; -exec
> sudo chmod 755 {} \;
>
> what is the function of ' {} \; '?

The escaped semi colon just marks the end of the command to -exec, as
you figured. Each time find gets a result, it runs the commands in the
-exec options replacing the {} with the path to the result (there are
other things, e.g. inode number, that you can substitute in with
different symbols).
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