On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 21:59:53 +0000, Dave Barry wrote: >Is it possible the "\" is taken as an escape character? > You came in late, but didn't read further in the conversation to where the OP said that he was using "find ... -exec ... \; "
Yes, "\" escapes the ";" as a shell token. And find requires such an escaped ";" to terminate the "-exec" argument list. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
