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From:	=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Schaible=2C_J=F6rg=22?= <Joerg DOT Schaible AT gft DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	RE: problem with find -exec
Date:	Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:52:11 +0200
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Hi Mike,

>find . -xdev -exec 'grep -l -F "string" {}';  
>I'd be grateful if anyone can see what I'm doing wrong,

excerpt from the man page:

       -exec command ;
              Execute  command; true if 0 status is returned.  All following
arguments
              to find are taken to be arguments to the command until an
argument  con-
              sisting  of `;' is encountered.  The string `{}' is replaced
by the cur-
              rent file name being processed everywhere it occurs in the
arguments  to
              the  command,  not  just in arguments where it is alone, as in
some ver-
              sions of find.  Both of these constructions might  need  to
be  escaped
              (with a `\') or quoted to protect them from expansion by the
shell.  The
              command is executed in the starting directory.

1. There is a space before the semicolon which *is* significant
2. Escape the semicolon

Regards,
Jörg

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