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Re: eshell: find: missing argument to `-exec' ?


From: Alan Mackenzie
Subject: Re: eshell: find: missing argument to `-exec' ?
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:23:35 +0000 (UTC)
User-agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-RELEASE (i386))

Hi, Xah,

Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:
> when running eshell in Windows, i do

> c:\Users\xah\web\xxst\make_download_copy>find -name "*el" -exec rm {}
> \;
> find -name "*el" -exec rm {} \;
> find: missing argument to `-exec'

> why is it missing argument?

At a guess, you need to quote the {}, like this:

    find -name "*el" -exec rm \{} \;
                              ^

> Thanks.

>  Xah

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).



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