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Re: find doe not take -exec or -ok parameter



On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 01:47:40PM +0200, Marcel Weber wrote:
> Okay let me see. I typed this one 
> 
> find /daten -size 0 -exec rm {}; 
> 
> Then it was the missing backslash?

Yes, a ; on its own is interpreted by the shell and so not passed to
find. You may sometimes need to quote or backslash-escape the {} as
well, depending on the shell.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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