RE: problem with find -exec

RE: problem with find -exec

["Schaible, Jörg"]

Hi Mike,

>find . -xdev -exec 'grep -l -F "string" {}';  
>I'd be grateful if anyone can see what I'm doing wrong,

excerpt from the man page:

       -exec command ;
              Execute  command; true if 0 status is returned.  All following
arguments
              to find are taken to be arguments to the command until an
argument  con-
              sisting  of `;' is encountered.  The string `{}' is replaced
by the cur-
              rent file name being processed everywhere it occurs in the
arguments  to
              the  command,  not  just in arguments where it is alone, as in
some ver-
              sions of find.  Both of these constructions might  need  to
be  escaped
              (with a `\') or quoted to protect them from expansion by the
shell.  The
              command is executed in the starting directory.

1. There is a space before the semicolon which *is* significant
2. Escape the semicolon

Regards,
Jörg

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RE: problem with find -exec

["Schaible, Jörg"]

Hi Mike,

>Also I didn't understand that 
>shell stomps
>the ; and also, also I didn't know that the space was required 

Well, I know, because I'd once stumbled, too <g>.

>(the second
>line of the man page for find -exec doesn't have a space btw).

Uups. IIRC I *had* problems without the space.

>Thanks for your help,

Your welcome,
Jörg

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problem with find -exec

[Davies, Mike]

Hi,

I'm using Cyywin on Win 98 SE and I have a problem with the find command.
The command I am trying to run is :

find . -xdev -exec 'grep -l -F "string" {}';  

This command works fine on another flavour of unix but under Cygwin it gives
me the error :  

find: missing argument to `-exec'


I've tried simplifying the command in various ways to try and see what's
going wrong (including find . -exec 'ls'; and others) but they all give the
same missing argument error.  

I'd be grateful if anyone can see what I'm doing wrong,

Thanks,

Mike Davies

Mike Davies

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