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Old 09-02-2008
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Need help with -exec cp command.
I have a ksh script that contains the following:

find /dir1/dir2 -type f -name "FILE.*" -newer /dir1/dir2/afterme.txt -exec cp /dir1/dir2/dir3 {} \;

When I run it from the cli, it runs fine. When I run it from the ksh script I get
find: missing argument to `-exec'

I also tried -exec cp {} ... and I still got the same error. What's the missing argument?
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Assuming you want to copy the files to the directory /dir1/dir2/dir3:

Code:
find /dir1/dir2 -type f -name "FILE.*" -newer /dir1/dir2/afterme.txt -exec cp {} /dir1/dir2/dir3 \;
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At the bottom of my first post, I mentioned that I already tried it that way. Still got the same error.

Anyone else?
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Might the below script will help you ;

find /dir1/dir2 \(-type f -name "FILE.*" -a -newer /dir1/dir2/afterme.txt \) -exec cp {} /dir1/dir2/dir3/ \;

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Might the below script will help you ;

find /dir1/dir2 \(-type f -name "FILE.*" -a -newer /dir1/dir2/afterme.txt \) -exec cp {} /dir1/dir2/dir3/ \;

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Thanks but nah. It returned this error:

find: invalid predicate `(-type'
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You need a space after the opening parenthesis. It's not clear why you were getting the error message in the first place but maybe just retyping a different command coincidentally fixes whatever was wrong (missing characters? Random invisible characters?)
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