on Mon, Apr 29, 2002, jeff (jmr71769@earthlink.net) wrote: > Allan Wind wrote: > > > cd /usr/local/share/icons; find / \( -name \*.gif -o name \*.jpeg -o -name \*.jpg -o -name \*.tif -o -name \*.tiff \) -a -type f | xargs -i ln -s \{\} . > > > this looks like it should indeed work...but when i > try it, i get: > > find: paths must precede expression > Usage: find [path...] [expression] There's a "-name" option missing the '-'. That one hits me all the time too. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Moderator, Free Software Law Discussion mailing list: http://lists.alt.org/mailman/listinfo/fsl-discuss/
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