Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] -exec edge case
Date: Sunday, 06 Sep 2020, 09:08:20
> Message Posted By: Unknown > > When reading the command line arguments (argv) until the ";" in -exec, > is it possible for the command to be: > > -exec echo foo > bar\; > > where there is no space between "bar" and ";". > > Or, is it always like "-exec echo foo > bar \;", where there is always a > space between the end of the system call (i.e. "bar") and ";"? > > Or can it be either? The \; must be a separate argument as you can verify by running /bin/find or Hwk1/fiend. --Stan-PREV INDEX NEXT