Find command
 

Can someone help me to understand what the following command is trying to do?

find path -name '*.log' -exec file \{\}\;

what are the curly brackets and back slashes for?

Thanks.

-exec command ;

Execute command; true if 0 status is returned. All following arguments to find are taken to be arguments to the command until an argument consisting of `;' is encountered. The string `{}' is replaced by the current file name being processed everywhere it occurs in the arguments to the command, not just in arguments where it is alone, as in some versions of find. Both of these constructions might need to be escaped (with a `\') or quoted to protect them from expansion by the shell. The command is executed in the starting directory.

And to answer the actual question:

It checks for the file-type of each file that ends with .log
under the current directory.

The first two back-slashes are unnecessary, the last one
escapes the ; which would otherwise be regarded by the shell
as a command-separator.


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