Find doesn't expand {}

[Chuck Karish]

In article <12502 at well.UUCP> tmh at well.UUCP (Todd M. Hoff) wrote:
>Why doesn't this work:
>
>    find . -type d -print -exec mkdir /xx/yy/zz/{} \;
>
>The '{}' doesn't expand out to the filename ...

Because the parser in find is too crude to recognize a token that's
not delimited by white space.  Try this, instead:

    find . -type d -print | sed 's+^+/xx/yy/zz/+' | xargs mkdir


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