From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: eshell: find: missing argument to `-exec' ?
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:23:35 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <h8dfg7$ldm$1@colin2.muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 123f4568-dd1d-450d-81e2-bea9dbd85b69@x5g2000prf.googlegroups.com
Hi, Xah,
Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:
> when running eshell in Windows, i do
> c:\Users\xah\web\xxst\make_download_copy>find -name "*el" -exec rm {}
> \;
> find -name "*el" -exec rm {} \;
> find: missing argument to `-exec'
> why is it missing argument?
At a guess, you need to quote the {}, like this:
find -name "*el" -exec rm \{} \;
^
> Thanks.
> Xah
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-11 12:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-11 7:59 eshell: find: missing argument to `-exec' ? Xah Lee
2009-09-11 12:23 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2009-09-11 12:43 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-09-11 14:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.6446.1252681177.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-11 18:45 ` Xah Lee
2009-09-11 18:53 ` Xah Lee
2009-09-12 8:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.6507.1252744061.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-12 17:10 ` Xah Lee
2009-09-14 9:35 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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