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How can I use '{}' to redirect the output of a command run through find's -exec option?

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Mar 15, 202620245 views

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I am trying to automate an command for a backup script, and I want to do something like this: This seems to work, in that it looks through each svn repository in , and runs on it. However, the second in the exec command doesn't get substituted for the name of the directory being processed. It basic…

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find /var/svn/* \( ! -name dir -prune \) -type d -exec svnadmin dump {} > {}.svn \;

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You can do the redirection like this: and the correct substitution will be done.

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How can I use '{}' to redirect the output of a command run through find's -exec option?

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