[ale] find -exec

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Sun Jul 14 18:28:34 EDT 2002


I've not used the -exec in a long while, rather try:

find . / -name '*.m3u -print |xargs cat

Kevin Krumwiede wrote:
> What's wrong with this command:
> 
> # find ./ -name '*.m3u' -exec 'cat {}'
> 
> or even this one:
> 
> # find ./ -name '*.m3u' -exec echo foo
> 
> I'm getting "find: missing argument to '-exec'" with Mandrake's
> findutils-4.1.7-2mdk.
> 
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