From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 26 06:27:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA15962 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 06:27:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com (as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com [206.27.167.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA15955 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 06:27:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from conrads@as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA01908; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 08:22:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3633F0AA.6E4A0B97@clearsail.net> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 08:22:09 -0600 (CST) Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. From: Conrad Sabatier To: Jason McNew Subject: RE: find... pilot error? Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 26-Oct-98 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. You need a space after the "{}". -- Conrad Sabatier The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an approaching train. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message