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Re: Question about "find"
- To: "William A. Nagy" <nagy at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Subject: Re: Question about "find"
- From: "Robert Praetorius" <RPraetorius at AspenRes dot Com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 16:36:18 +0000
- CC: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Reply-to: RPraetorius at AspenRes dot Com
> Has anyone had success in getting "find" to work with the -exec option
> under the Windows shell (cmd.exe)? I've tried about every combination
> that I can think of, but I keep getting:
Yes (on NT, haven't tried Win95) - I just terminate the -exec with
; or ";" (instead of the traditional \;) and it works fine. Using \;
or omitting any kind of terminating semicolon results in
> find: missing argument to '-exec'
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