On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Matthew Dalton wrote:
> Jill Rowling wrote:
> >
> > Use colon, not '.', ie
> > find /some/starting/directory -group 503 -user 503 \
> > -exec chown 690:750 {}\;
>
> What's the difference? I can't see any in the man page - the colon and
> dot seem to be interchangeable.
The colon is more portable ... it prolly works on all unices,
whereas '.' does not work on Solaris (from memory) ... or is it
BSD?
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