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Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 23:37:08 +0200
From: Willem Brown <willem@brwn.org>
To: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
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Subject: Re: find -exec Problem
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Hi,

Everything including the semi-colon is part of the expression used
by -exec. You have to escape the semi-colon to stop the shell from
using it. I guess the quotes confuses -exec just a bit.

Regards
Willem Brown

On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 11:07:18PM +0200, Christoph Sold wrote:
> 
> 
> Willem Brown wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 10:50:02PM +0200, Christoph Sold wrote:
> > > Maybe it's just me, but... could some helpful soul look at the
> > > following:
> > >
> > > # uname -a
> > > FreeBSD me.here.org 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE #7: Thu Jun 22
> > > 14:30:20 CEST 2000     root@me.here.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/ME  i386
> > > # find . -type d -print -exec 'chmod o+rx {}';
> > 
> > I think you should escape the semi-colon. This worked for me:
> > 
> > find . -type d -print -exec ls -l {} \;
> 
> # find . -type d -print -exec  chmod o+rx {} \;
> 
> Worked. Removed quotes from problem above... worked. Dunno why.
> 
> Thanks
> -Christoph
> 
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