From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 24 1:51: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93E6937B401 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 01:51:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.thundernet.cz (mail.thundernet.cz [62.77.87.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 22C9543E75 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 01:50:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: (qmail 20611 invoked from network); 24 Sep 2002 08:50:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freepuppy.bellavista.cz) (62.168.44.50) by mail.thundernet.cz with SMTP; 24 Sep 2002 08:50:52 -0000 Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 088242FDAB2; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:50:47 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:50:47 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: rene@xs4all.nl Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: find -exec : "no terminating ;" Message-ID: <20020924085047.GL30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: rene@xs4all.nl, questions@freebsd.org References: <200209240844.g8O8iO162978@xs2.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200209240844.g8O8iO162978@xs2.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 # rene@xs4all.nl / 2002-09-24 10:44:24 +0200: > $ find . -type f -exec cat {} >> r; > find: -exec: no terminating ";" if you don't quote the semicolon your shell will eat it. % find . -type f -exec cat {} >> r \; but this is quite an abuse of the sorry animal. % cat `find . -type f` >> r -- begin 666 nonexistent.vbs FreeBSD 4.7-RC 10:47AM up 6 days, 18:01, 30 users, load averages: 0.05, 0.07, 0.07 end To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message