From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 16 0: 4:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Waltham.fkeinternet.com (ns1.FKEinternet.com [208.58.172.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F6FD37B400 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 00:04:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from flighty.L5Development.com (h005018064501.ne.mediaone.net [24.218.222.21]) by Waltham.fkeinternet.com (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g0G84aYV057735 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 03:04:36 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.1.20020116030217.00a1ed50@L5Development.com> X-Sender: wfredk@L5Development.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 03:04:16 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org From: Fred Koschara Subject: Re: Why does find -exec not work? THANKS In-Reply-To: <20020116074621.GA67958@alaska.cert.siemens.de> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020116021843.00a21320@L5Development.com> <5.1.0.14.1.20020116021843.00a21320@L5Development.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 Thanks to all for the quick suggestions. I guess I must have overlooked where they mention escaping the semicolon in the docs... -- Fred >Try this: > ># find . -name "*Played*" -print -exec cat {} \; > >(Note the leading \ for ;) ________________________________________________________________________ For private sector (commercial) space development, visit http://www.L5Development.com L5 Software Development - "out of this world" sites and software http://www.L5Software.com StudioLines.com - Your place on the Internet for local music Music, feedback, connections. Tap the power of the Internet! http://www.StudioLines.com How much did your last traffic ticket cost you? http://www.StopHighwayRobbery.com ThmIndxr(tm), the *only* HTML thumbnail/indexer you need! http://www.L5Software.com/go?ThmIndxr wCapLock(tm), makes CapsLock work like it does on a typewriter http://www.L5Software.com/go?wCapLock KeywordGo(tm), provides keyword access to your popular pages http://www.L5Software.com/go?KeywordGo BannerAds(tm), join multiple affiliate programs with one banner http://www.L5Software.com/go?BannerAds FredLines(tm), T-Shirts For the Thinking Mind(tm) You've seen them, now wear them! http://www.FredLines-TShirts.com My personal Web page is http://www.L5Development.com/wfredk Stop by some time! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message