On Dec 2, 2005, at 4:43 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On Dec 2, 2005, at 9:34 am, Kansas Territory wrote: >> >> 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