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From: "Davies, Mike" <MDavies AT uk DOT waukbearing DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: problem with find -exec
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 04:45:07 -0500
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Hi,

I'm using Cyywin on Win 98 SE and I have a problem with the find command.
The command I am trying to run is :

find . -xdev -exec 'grep -l -F "string" {}';  

This command works fine on another flavour of unix but under Cygwin it gives
me the error :  

find: missing argument to `-exec'


I've tried simplifying the command in various ways to try and see what's
going wrong (including find . -exec 'ls'; and others) but they all give the
same missing argument error.  

I'd be grateful if anyone can see what I'm doing wrong,

Thanks,

Mike Davies

Mike Davies

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