[prog] Perl and find(1)

[Mary Gardiner]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2006, Jacinta Richardson wrote:
> I can't even get the find command to work outside of Perl:
> 
> jarich at bella:/tmp$ find . -atime +14 -name "*.tgz" -print -exec "ls -al"
> find: missing argument to `-exec'

-exec arguments must be terminated with a semi-colon, which usually
needs to be escaped with "\;", so:

find . -atime +14 -name "*.tgz" -print -exec "ls -al" \;

The original mail had this on another line:

> system "find @directories -atime +14 -name \"*.tgz\" -print -exec ls -al {}
> \;";