Re: find 4.2.20-2 bug

2014-05-30 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/30/2014 01:37 AM, Jim Michaels wrote: > Thu 05/29/2014 1:53:34.03|d:\www\jimm|>find . -name "*.htm*" -exec grep > math.eval {} ; -print This is not a valid command line in Unix sh (where ; has to be quoted). I suspect that the issue you are seeing is not a bug in upstream findutils, but r

Re: find 4.2.20-2 bug

2014-05-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2014-05-30 Jim Michaels wrote: > Thu 05/29/2014  1:53:34.03|d:\www\jimm|>find . -name "*.htm*" -exec grep > math.eval {} ; -print > find: paths must precede expression > Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression] [...] You need to escape the ";" to make sure the shell passes it on to f