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From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de>
To: "'Stein M. Eliassen'" <steinme AT kpnqwest DOT no>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: find: missing argument to -exec
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 00:02:15 +0100
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Hi,

I tried that, with echo instead of rm 8-)
you need to reverse \ and space:
find . -mtime 1 -exec rm {} \;


Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Stein M. Eliassen [SMTP:steinme AT kpnqwest DOT no]
> Sent:	Thursday, March 15, 2001 23:28
> To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject:	find: missing argument to -exec
> 
> Hi,
> 
> When trying:
> find . -mtime 1 -exec rm {}\ ;
> 
> I'm receiving 'find: missing argument to -exec', I've tried several
> variants
> too.
> 
> Even searched the archives and found some post's regarding the subject,
> but I'm
> still not able to solve it.
> 
> Someone knows what's the problem here?
> 
> On another note, it's something wrong with my cygwin-setup since the 'alt
> gr'-key doesn't work in the cygwin-shell, but everything is correct from
> cmd.exe.
> 
> How do I handle that?
> 
> Cygwin version installed is 1.1.8 on NT4 SP6.
> 
> 
> Regards
> Stein
> 
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