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Old 08-29-2008
yeclota yeclota is offline
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find . -exec grep -l 'toto' {} \
find . -exec grep -l 'toto'{}\;

return
find: 0652-018 An expression term lacks a required parameter.

can you give me some details because i'm not an expert in shell programming.

Thanks.