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From: "Javier" <fjpp AT softhome DOT net>
Subject: Re: "find -exec broken"??
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 21:30:01 +0100
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Duh!!

I was just missign the "\" befor the ";", so it didn't work. The docs
(man find) _do_ say something about the (pssible) need to escape the {}
for the command to run, but it isn't so clear about the ";" - of course
thinking a little about it, I guess the shell was taking the ; as a
command separator, and executing both commands, "find" and "null"...
that's the reason for the unhelpful :

public_html> find . -type d -maxdepth 1 -exec echo {} ;
find: missing argument to `-exec'

it was missing the ending ;

en> find . -type d -maxdepth 1 -exec echo {} ;
find: missing argument to `-exec'

but anything after the ; was executed:

en> find . -type d -maxdepth 1 -exec echo {} ; ls
find: missing argument to `-exec'
SCCS/  index.en.html*  to_do.en.html*

and once I escaped the ";", all went well:

en> find . -type d -maxdepth 1 -exec echo {} \;

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