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RE: find: missing argument to -exec
- To: "'Stein M. Eliassen'" <steinme at kpnqwest dot no>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: RE: find: missing argument to -exec
- From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms at icon-gmbh dot de>
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 00:02:15 +0100
Hi,
I tried that, with echo instead of rm 8-)
you need to reverse \ and space:
find . -mtime 1 -exec rm {} \;
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stein M. Eliassen [SMTP:steinme@kpnqwest.no]
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 23:28
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: find: missing argument to -exec
>
> Hi,
>
> When trying:
> find . -mtime 1 -exec rm {}\ ;
>
> I'm receiving 'find: missing argument to -exec', I've tried several
> variants
> too.
>
> Even searched the archives and found some post's regarding the subject,
> but I'm
> still not able to solve it.
>
> Someone knows what's the problem here?
>
> On another note, it's something wrong with my cygwin-setup since the 'alt
> gr'-key doesn't work in the cygwin-shell, but everything is correct from
> cmd.exe.
>
> How do I handle that?
>
> Cygwin version installed is 1.1.8 on NT4 SP6.
>
>
> Regards
> Stein
>
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