[X4U] command line cp question

Kansas Territory kansast at mac.com
Fri Dec 2 05:10:14 PST 2005


On Dec 2, 2005, at 4:43 AM, Stroller wrote:

>
> On Dec 2, 2005, at 9:34 am, Kansas Territory wrote:
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>> find / -name "*.pl" -exec cp \{} perlscripts/
>>
>> i tried running this from the command line...  I get:
>>
>> find: missing argument to `-exec'
>>
>> I'm trying to run this from a command line.. on  a Linux box if  
>> that makes any difference ?
>
> You forgot the semicolon, which is a terminator:


that was it.. thanks for the help !


Kansast


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