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From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp@familiehaase.de>
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To: "Soren Andersen" <soren@wonderstorm.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 18:58:17 +0200
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Subject: Re: `find [...] -exec [...]' confusion
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Soren Andersen schrieb am 2001-09-14, 11:35:

>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?
This is an error for me, too.
Try this instead:
find /perl -name "*.pl" -exec cat {} /dev/null \;

>  Thank you for an answer that goes easy on the "its-an-FAQ-you-idiot"s.

Gerrit


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