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Re: eshell: find: missing argument to `-exec' ?
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: eshell: find: missing argument to `-exec' ? |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:23:35 +0000 (UTC) |
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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
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