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Jason McNew wrote:
> 
> After reading the find man page, I tried using:
> find / -name "*.mp3" -exec mpg123 {};
> and it tells me:
> find: -exec: no terminating ";"
> if I do:
> find / -name "*.mp3" -exec mpg123 {}\;
> it runs ok, but mpg123 just gives me syntax help a few times.
> So, I tried:
> find / -name "*.mp3" -exec echo {}\;
> and it just spits out a bunch of blank lines.
> Although:
> find / -name "*.mp3" -print
> works exactly how i'd expect it.

	I don't know what mpg123 expects as an argument, but in a case like
this I fall back on my shell. Assuming you're using Bash or sh, this
should work:

for FILE in `find / -name '\*.mp3'`; do
mpg123 $FILE
done

You might also get better results using the '\*.mp3' with the -exec
line, but the script above should work. 

Good luck,

Doug
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