On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 10:35:31AM +1100, 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.
Not on all Unixes. The GNU fileutils allow both, but the native tools
on Solaris 2.6 for example only allow a colon.
Cheers,
John
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