`find -exec` in git alias

Question

This alias in .git/config :

 pycat = !find -iname '*.py' -exec cat {} \; 

Gives me this in a shell:

 $ git pycat fatal: bad config file line 19 in .git/config 

I tried quotes, without quotes, switching quote types, overcoming all four levels, but I can't figure out what makes git miserable here.

Answer 1

Says a little hasty that this is a semicolon,

 pycat = !find -iname '*.py' -exec cat {} "\\;" pycat = !find -iname '*.py' -exec cat {} "';'" pycat = "!find -iname '*.py' -exec cat {} \\;" pycat = "!find -iname '*.py' -exec cat {} \";\"" 

everything is working. The semicolon is syntax with comments on el in the old school, which can happen here. Thus, the configuration analyzer uses a single layer of double letters.

(edit: yup . He even talks about this in the document:

The syntax is quite flexible and permissive; spaces are mostly ignored. # And; characters start commenting to the end of the line, blank lines are ignored.

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