Benj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> ";" has to be escaped to avoid expansion by the shell, so says the
> manual. But I don't know exactly how the shell will interpret ";"
> if it's not escaped.

As the command separator, of course. See, you can specify multiple
commands in the -exec argument of find (feature!), but find should
also know where the -exec argument ends...

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