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http://unix.stackexchange.com – I want to remove certain files using find and -exec. But unlikely bash tells me, that I'm "missing" some argument. find . -name *.png -exec rm {} /; what do I miss? same "missing argument" return for my attempt to rename some files: find . -name ic_launcher.png -exec mv {} other_name.png /; Can somebody tell me, what bash does miss, and why this command isn't successful? (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 07/23/2012 – Made popular on 07/23/2012

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Suppose I have the following bash code:

!#/bin/bash function print_echo (){ echo "This is print_echo Function" $1; } find ./ -iname "*" -exec print_echo {} \;

For each -exec command i get the following error:

find: `print_echo': No such file or directory

NOTE: Before it , i tested it for a critical program , and solved my program with another algorithm but it's a question: Why find comm

I'm on Solaris 10 and I have tested the following with ksh(88), bash(3.00) and zsh(4.2.1).

The following code doesn't yield any result:

function foo { echo "Hello World" }

find somedir -exec foo \;

The find does match several files (as shown by replacing -exec ...

[ubuntu] file manipulation II 17 weeks 9 hours ago

A few months ago I had accidentally moved the contents (mp3 files) out of their folders, up one layer in the main folder.

Quote:

find ./ -iname "*.avi" -exec mv '( )' /home/SillyNubee/Music/Jazz

When I re-ran the command, I got a "Find: missing argument to 'exec'

Is there a more elegant way to move the contents into the main folder

I try to find many files in many folders with specific content, and delete them.

find dir.*/* -exec grep -l "content" {} \; | xargs rm -f

And I get following message:

-bash: /bin/find: Argument list too long

Can you help me?

Greeting all

I'mtrying to move the contents of folders (mp3 file) to my Music folder. When I run the command found below, I get a "find: missing argument to `-exec' " error

WTF

Quote:

find ./ -iname *".mp3" -exec mv {} ./home/imhotep/Music

I have a large directory of music files that is often changing as files and directories come and go.

I have come across a strange error that I haven't been able to figure out what it means or how to fix it:

sudo find . -type f -exec ls -lT {} + find: fts_read: Invalid argument

What does this mean? And why is this occurring?

Note: I am using osx for this command.

Hi, I have two scripts that remove files. One works fine and is coded

Code: find -name "syst*" -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \; The other is almost the same - only thing missing is the '\'.

Hi,

I need to delete the last N days file using find. I am trying to use

find . -mtime -10 -print

which lists down required files. but when i use

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

it gives me all files in the directory including the required files but the required files are having ./ preceded with them.

Now when I tried find .