You need a trailing "\;" on the end of your command
bash$ find /perl -name "*.pl" -exec cat {} \;
-----Original Message-----
From: Soren Andersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 9:35 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: `find [...] -exec [...]' confusion
Hello,
I have been wondering about this for a long time. In msg #36282 by: Simon
Heffer, he mentions what i have found: that when `find' is run with an -exec
option, there is invariably a message saying "missing argument to exec."
Trying something like this:
find /perl -name "*.pl" -exec cat {}
gives me that error message. can someone confirm to me that this is a bug?
or
not?
Thank you for an answer that goes easy on the "its-an-FAQ-you-idiot"s.
Soren Andersen
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