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Hello all-

Can somebody explain why I can do this on the command line

find ./data -type f -exec chown nobody {} \; \
                    -exec chgrp nogroup {} \; \
                    -exec chmod 664 {} \;

But not in a Bourne shell script?  When I run the script with the backslashes
to break up the command to make it readable, I get this

  # ./fix_perms
  find: : unknown option
  -exec: not found
  #

Where is the second colon on the find: error line coming from?  To get around
this, I have everything on a single line in the script, but that's not very
"pretty!"  :)

Thanks
-Glen


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