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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:27:03 -0500
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To: Kenneth Farley <KFarley AT alidian DOT com>
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Subject: Re: find cmd and bash
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Kenneth Farley wrote:
> 
> Sirs:
>         I am trying to get two command sets to work using find. I have
> resolved getting the correct find in the path, but am still having problems.
> 
> $ find . -type f -name *.cpp -print | xargs grep -n 'Xpif*'
> 
> xargs: grep: No such file or directory
> 
> find . \( -name '*.[ch]' -o -name '*.cpp' \) -exec ctags -u {} \;
> 
> find: ctags: No such file or directory
> find: ctags: No such file or directory
> find: ctags: No such file or directory
> find: ctags: No such file or directory
> find: ctags: No such file or directory
> find: ctags: No such file or directory
> find: ctags: No such file or directory
> find: ctags: No such file or directory
> find: ctags: No such file or directory
> find: ctags: No such file or directory
> 
> It seems to be the same type of problem in both cases. Which is passing the
> stuff from find to the next command.
> 

Add quotes around the {} part of the command.  My guess is you have
files with spaces in the name.

Earnie.

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