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I noticed in the man pages for find, that the {} always have single quotes around them.

find -exec '{}' \;

The description states:

Notice that the braces are enclosed in single quote marks to protect them from interpretation as shell script punctuation. The semicolon is simi- larly protected by the use of a backslash

I have never had an issue using just find -exec {} \;
What is an example where the single quotes are required.

spuder
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  • My persoal `find` usage is very rudimentary, but I habitually backslash the curly brackets: `find . -exec whatever \{\} \;` –  Jul 25 '13 at 00:51
  • See Gilles answer on the duplicate question, he covers it there. – slm Jul 25 '13 at 00:53

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