Mag. Leonhard Landrock wrote:
Why does "find / -name syslogd -exec pwd ;" not work?
You need to protect the last ; from the shell so it is passed
as an argument to find, not seen as the end of the find command
by the shell. You can choose \; ";" or ';'
BTW, the description of the -exec action in the find(1) man page
specifically says: "Both of these constructions [ ; and {} ] might
need to be escaped (with a `\') or quoted to protect them from
expansion by the shell."
Also BTW, the " -exec pwd \; " will always print just / because
"The command is executed in the starting directory." That's taken
from the same paragraph of the man page--but only in some
versions of the man page I have on my box???
You probably want:
find / -name syslogd -exec dirname '{}' ';'
- Brandon.
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