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Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 19:47:11 -0700
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: grep -i -R path32 * vs grep -i -R path32 *.vb*
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Sheryl,

What is "the XP shell?"

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 16:58 2002-10-09, Sheryl McKeown wrote:
>Hi Igor,
>
>I too am an avocate for find. However, I can't seem to
>master it's usage in XP's shell.
>
>For instance, the find command you suggested
>
>"find . -name *.vb* -exec grep -ni path32 {} \;
>-print"
>
>returns the error
>find: missing argument to `-exec'
>
>in the XP shell.  The command works fine in the bash
>shell.
>
>More on the XP shell...
>
>...


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