From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 15 23:46:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from goliath.siemens.de (goliath.siemens.de [194.138.37.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 524C637B404 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 23:46:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail3.siemens.de (mail3.siemens.de [139.25.208.14]) by goliath.siemens.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0G7kMW03288; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:46:22 +0100 (MET) Received: from mars.cert.siemens.de (ust.mchp.siemens.de [139.23.201.17]) by mail3.siemens.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0G7kMH16098; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:46:22 +0100 (MET) Received: from reims.mchp.siemens.de (alaska [139.23.202.134]) by mars.cert.siemens.de (8.12.2/8.12.1/Siemens CERT [ $Revision: 1.22 ]) with ESMTP id g0G7kMsb017530; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:46:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from reims.mchp.siemens.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by reims.mchp.siemens.de (8.12.2/8.12.2/alaska [ $Revision: 1.10 ]) with ESMTP id g0G7kLPD068101; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:46:21 +0100 (CET) Received: (from ust@localhost) by reims.mchp.siemens.de (8.12.2/8.12.2/alaska [ $Revision: 1.2 ]) id g0G7kLDd068100; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:46:21 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:46:21 +0100 From: Udo Schweigert To: Fred Koschara Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why does find -exec not work? Message-ID: <20020116074621.GA67958@alaska.cert.siemens.de> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020116021843.00a21320@L5Development.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20020116021843.00a21320@L5Development.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-RC Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 02:39:04 -0500, Fred Koschara wrote: > ttyp0 # find . -name "*Played*" -print -exec cat {}; Try this: # find . -name "*Played*" -print -exec cat {} \; (Note the leading \ for ;) Best regards Udo Schweigert -- Udo Schweigert, Siemens AG | Voice : +49 89 636 42170 CT IC 3, Siemens CERT | Fax : +49 89 636 41166 D-81730 Muenchen / Germany | email : Udo.Schweigert@siemens.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message