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


From: Xah Lee
Subject: Re: eshell: find: missing argument to `-exec' ?
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:53:15 -0700 (PDT)
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On Sep 11, 11:45 am, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> none of the suggestions seems to work so far.
>
> c:\Users\xah\Documents\vrici\cabdei>find . -name "*sch*" -exce echo \
> {} \;
> find . -name "*sch*" -exce echo \{} \;
> find: unknown predicate `-exce'
>
> c:\Users\xah\Documents\vrici\cabdei>find . -name "*sch*" -exce echo \
> {\} \;
> find . -name "*sch*" -exce echo \{\} \;
> find: unknown predicate `-exce'
>
> c:\Users\xah\Documents\vrici\cabdei>find . -name "*sch*" -exce echo {}
> ';'
> find . -name "*sch*" -exce echo {} ';'
> find: unknown predicate `-exce'
>
> c:\Users\xah\Documents\vrici\cabdei>find . -name "*sch*" -exce echo
> '{}' ';'
> find . -name "*sch*" -exce echo '{}' ';'
> find: unknown predicate `-exce'
>
> this appears to be a bug?

Sorry, i had big typo in the above. This works:

find . -name "*sch*" -exec echo {} ';'

Thanks. Still, this probably should probably be considered a bug. Is
there some technical reason eshell having problems with the \; ?

 Xah


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