cvs commit: src/usr.bin/find find.1

[Jan Demter]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:12:15 -0400 (EDT)
Garrett Wollman <wollman at khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:

> <<On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:14:10 -0300, "Daniel C. Sobral"
> <dcs at tcoip.com.br> said:
> 
> > Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
> 
> >> State that in -exec ... ; the semicolon should be quoted if invoked
> >from> a shell.
> 
> > Wouldn't that be "escaped"?
> 
> Not necessarily.  Escaping is one kind of quoting, but not the only
> one.

Isn't it exactly the other way round? e.g.:
%find /proc -name status -exec grep whatnot {} ";" #quoted, escaped
%find /proc -name status -exec grep whatnot {} \;  #escaped

Not that this a too important issue...

Jan