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From: The Derfer on 9 Feb 2010 14:35
How come this command doesn't simply ls the results of the
find command in the directory executed?:

boxman user1> find . -mtime -10 -exec ls {}\;
find: missing argument to `-exec'


In case it helps:

Linux boxman 2.6.18-92.el5 #1 SMP Fri May 23 23:40:43 EDT 2008 x86_64
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Thanks in advance.
From: pk on 9 Feb 2010 14:38
The Derfer wrote:

> How come this command doesn't simply ls the results of the
> find command in the directory executed?:
>
> boxman user1> find . -mtime -10 -exec ls {}\;
> find: missing argument to `-exec'

Try with a space:

find . -mtime -10 -exec ls {} \;

In this specific case though, you don't need the -exec:

find . -mtime -10

also take a look at the -ls action of GNU find (man find).

From: WH on 9 Feb 2010 14:48
> boxman user1> find . -mtime -10 -exec ls {}\;
> find: missing argument to `-exec'

find . -mtime -10 -exec ls \{} \;

or

find . -mtime -10 -exec ls '{}' \;

works
From: Rikishi42 on 9 Feb 2010 15:16
On 2010-02-09, WH <whzhao(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> boxman user1> find . -mtime -10 -exec ls {}\;
>> find: missing argument to `-exec'
>
> find . -mtime -10 -exec ls \{} \;
>
> or
>
> find . -mtime -10 -exec ls '{}' \;
>
> works

and

find . -mtime -10 -exec ls '{}' ';'

But, as allready stated, the -exec is redundant


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From: Sven Mascheck on 9 Feb 2010 16:44
pk wrote:

> the -ls action of GNU find (man find).

rather, of BSD derived find implementations.
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