RE: `find [...] -exec [...]' confusion

[Troy Noble <troy dot noble at channelpoint dot com>]

You need a trailing "\;" on the end of your command

bash$ find /perl -name "*.pl" -exec cat {} \;

-----Original Message-----
From: Soren Andersen [mailto:soren@wonderstorm.com]
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 9:35 AM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
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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