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Re: eshell: find: missing argument to `-exec' ?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: eshell: find: missing argument to `-exec' ?
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:57:28 +0300

> From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:43:53 +0200
> 
> > At a guess, you need to quote the {}, like this:
> >
> >     find -name "*el" -exec rm \{} \;
> 
> find gives this error when it doesn't see the ';' argument.
> I know of no shell where {} needs to be escaped or quoted.
> 
> eshell seems to have difficulties with backslash escapes on
> MS-Windows.  Then we could use quotes instead:
> 
>    find -name "*el" -exec rm {} ';'

The {} needs to be quoted as well.




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