[Techtalk] real life kewl text-processing and regexps samples wanted

[Elena Bevell]

I like this recursive grep that I found somewhere:

find  . -type f -exec grep "thing-to-find" {} \;

note that there is no space between the two braces
and no space between the backslash and the semicolon,
but there is a space between the second brace and the backslash.

Can someone explain the spaces and why this works?

 I'd like to know

thx,
Elena