[prog] Perl and find(1)

[Kathryn Hogg]

Jacinta Richardson wrote:

> jarich at bella:/tmp$ find . -atime +14 -name "*.tgz" -print -exec "ls -al"
> find: missing argument to `-exec'

You don't want the double quotes around the ls command and you need the {}
and the \;
{} substitutes the current file
; terminates the -exec but since it also has meaning to the shell, you
need to escape with a \

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

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Kathryn
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