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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 12:41:02 -0700
From: "James A. Taylor" <jataylor@lundahl.com>
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Subject: Re: Recursing directories?
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I'm sure your all getting tired of hearing from me today.

I wrote

> > Is it possible to have a shell script recurse a directory tree?
> > Still the same situation as my last email I have a directory tree
> > with .shtml files.  I want to recurse the directory tree renaming
> > each .shtml to a .html file. Paul sent me the following script that
> > allows me to mv all .shtml in a single directory:

Dan Mahoney wrote:

> How about:
>
> find . -type d -exec yourscript {}
>
> where {} gets filled in with the name of each directory that gets found.

  Casper wrote:

> see man find
> u'll use something like this :
>
> find /dir_name/ -name *.shtml -e mv {} `basenahe {} .shtml`.html;

When I run find with the -exec option I get the following error

find: -exec: no terminating ";"

I have put a ; at the end put I still get the error.  What am I doin wrong?

James A. Taylor


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