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

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> 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 \{} \;

find gives this error when it doesn't see the ';' argument.
I know of no shell where {} needs to be escaped or quoted.

eshell seems to have difficulties with backslash escapes on
MS-Windows.  Then we could use quotes instead:

   find -name "*el" -exec rm {} ';'

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__Pascal Bourguignon__