Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 02:39:04 -0500 From: Fred Koschara <wfredk@L5Development.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Why does find -exec not work? Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020116021843.00a21320@L5Development.com>
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I want to print the contents of several log files my Web application has
generated. I read the "find" man page, which looks to me as if there's
supposed to be an easy way to do this:
-exec utility [argument ...];
True if the program named utility returns a zero value as its
exit status. Optional arguments may be passed to the utility.
The expression must be terminated by a semicolon (``;''). If the
string ``{}'' appears anywhere in the utility name or the argu-
ments it is replaced by the pathname of the current file.
Utility will be executed from the directory from which find was
executed. Utility and arguments are not subject to the further
expansion of shell patterns and constructs.
My interpretation of the above section indicates I should be able to run
cat for each one of the files that's found, which would produce the output
I'm looking for. However, the second "find" call here doesn't work:
ttyp0 # find . -name "*Played*" -print
./Artists/Acoustic/logs/1010572/200201_1010572_PlayedSample
./Artists/Acoustic/logs/1010572/200201_1010572_PlayedTrack
./Artists/Popular/logs/1010539/200201_1010539_PlayedTrack
./Artists/Popular/logs/1010539/200201_1010539_PlayedSample
Wed Jan 16 02:09:42 EST 2002
ttyp0 # find . -name "*Played*" -print -exec cat {};
find: -exec: no terminating ";"
Wed Jan 16 02:10:05 EST 2002
ttyp0 # uname -a
FreeBSD Waltham.fkeinternet.com 4.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #0:
Mon Nov 26 12:54:30 EST 2001
root@Waltham:/usr/src/sys/compile/WALTHAM i386
I've tried as many different variations of quotes, backslashes, double
semicolons, etc. as I thought could be possible, but I can't seem to get
anything but 'find: -exec: no terminating ";"' as a result.
Isn't there a terminating ';' on the line I entered? Am I completely
misreading something?
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