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Thu, 12 May 2005 06:40

ashokmote
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rm -f {}
I want to know the use of {} in rm command

Thu, 12 May 2005 07:20

Frank Naude
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Registered: April 1998

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Have you seen it being used with a find command? If so, {} is a file name from the find command. Example:

$ find . -exec ls {} \;

Best regards.

Frank

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