I am trying to automate an svnadmin dump command for a backup script, and I want to do something like this:

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

This seems to work, in that it looks through each svn repository in /var/svn, and runs svnadmin dump on it.

However, the second {} in the exec command doesn't get substituted for the name of the directory being processed. It basically just results a single file named {}.svn.

I suspect that this is because the shell interprets > to end the find command, and it tries redirecting stdout from that command to the file named {}.svn.

Any ideas?