From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 3 13:58:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 282C037BFD8 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 13:58:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id BAA30696; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 01:01:43 +0200 Message-ID: <3960FEA2.FD01F3DE@i-clue.de> Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 22:59:14 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de Organization: i-clue interactive GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Clegg Cc: Christoph Sold , FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: find -exec Problem References: <3960FC7A.4217804D@i-clue.de> <20000703165333.F42727@shell.wetworks.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alan Clegg wrote: > > An SMTP stream claimed that I muttered: > > > # find . -type d -print -exec 'chmod o+rx {}'; > > find: -exec: no terminating ";" > > > > To me, this command look like it is in sync wiht it's manpage. What am I > > doing wrong here? > > Add a \ before the ; > > ie: > > find . -type d -print -exec 'chmod o+rx {}' \; Nope. Problem remains. Yeah I'm running bash here. -Christoph Sold -- i-clue GmbH, Endersbacher Str. 57, D-71334 Waiblingen Fon: (0 71 51) 9 59 01-12, Fax: (0 71 51) 9 59 01-55 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message