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From: "Mark Paulus" <commpg AT yahoo DOT com>
To: "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>,
        "Stein M. Eliassen" <steinme AT kpnqwest DOT no>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:16:08 -0700
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Subject: Re: find: missing argument to -exec

You must place a space between the {} and the \;
find . -mtime 1 -exec rm {} \ ;

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 23:28:21 +0100, Stein M. Eliassen wrote:

>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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