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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 07:20:14 -0600
From: Jason McNew <jase@clearsail.net>
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Conrad Sabatier wrote:
> 
> On 26-Oct-98 Jason McNew wrote:
> > After reading the find man page, I tried using:
> > find / -name "*.mp3" -exec mpg123 {};
> > and it tells me:
> > find: -exec: no terminating ";"
> > if I do:
> > find / -name "*.mp3" -exec mpg123 {}\;
> > it runs ok, but mpg123 just gives me syntax help a few times.
> 
> You need a space after the "{}".
> 

Doh! LOL.. Thanks :)

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