On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:00:17AM +0100, Rus Foster wrote: > base-2.05a$ ssh remotehost find /home -name .bash_history -exec grep foo > {} \; > find: missing argument to `-exec' > > I've tried quoting it, escaping it..What am I doing wrong?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -l bss atsrvlx01 'find /home -name ".bash_history" -exec grep foo {}\;' find: missing argument to `-exec' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -l bss atsrvlx01 'find /home -name ".bash_history" -exec grep foo {} \;' grep: /home/bss/mailarchive_save/.bash_history: Permission denied find: /home/bss/mailarchive_save/.ssh: Permission denied grep: /home/bss/nagios.bak.new/.bash_history: Permission denied find: /home/bss/nagios.bak.new/.ssh: Permission denied grep: /home/bss/mailarchive_save_new/.bash_history: Permission denied find: /home/bss/mailarchive_save_new/.ssh: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Is it like this in your case maybe? (I added a space near the end between } and \ ... ) or like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -l bss atsrvlx01 find /home -name ".bash_history" -exec grep foo {} \; find: missing argument to `-exec' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -l bss atsrvlx01 'find /home -name ".bash_history" -exec grep foo {} \;' grep: /home/bss/mailarchive_save/.bash_history: Permission denied find: /home/bss/mailarchive_save/.ssh: Permission denied grep: /home/bss/nagios.bak.new/.bash_history: Permission denied find: /home/bss/nagios.bak.new/.ssh: Permission denied grep: /home/bss/mailarchive_save_new/.bash_history: Permission denied find: /home/bss/mailarchive_save_new/.ssh: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ? HTH charlie -- Végh Károly - System Engineer - UTA - TIS.SAS.BSS Don't worry. Everything is getting nicely out of control. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]