questions on find and grep

November 14, 2021 by admin

With respect to the following find command-line
find . -type f -exec grep -l strings {} \;
I do not understand the usage of -exec and {} \.

Answer

For each find (or directory) found, execute the following command:

grep -l strings {} \;

The {} is the place holder, which stands for the file/directory found. The \; is syntactically required.

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Source : Link , Question Author : user288609 , Answer Author : Hai Vu