Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: "Soren Andersen" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 11:35:22 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: `find [...] -exec [...]' confusion Message-ID: <3BA1EB7A.11188.6EB1886@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Hello, I have been wondering about this for a long time. In msg #36282 by: Simon Heffer, he mentions what i have found: that when `find' is run with an -exec option, there is invariably a message saying "missing argument to exec." Trying something like this: find /perl -name "*.pl" -exec cat {} gives me that error message. can someone confirm to me that this is a bug? or not? Thank you for an answer that goes easy on the "its-an-FAQ-you-idiot"s. Soren Andersen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/