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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Find command not executing for copying file Post 302629625 by Peasant on Wednesday 25th of April 2012 02:49:29 AM
Old 04-25-2012
You don't use :, but ; at the end of the find statement.

Alse please use code tags for posting code.

Hope that helps

Regards
Peasant.
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NAME
xmds - the eXtensible Multi-Dimensional Simulator SYNOPSIS
xmds [options] <script_file> DESCRIPTION
The program xmds is a code generator that integrates equations. You write them down in human readable form in an XML file, and it goes away and writes and compiles a C++ program that integrates those equations as fast as it can possibly be done in your architecture. For information as to how to write a script for xmds, and how to solve problems in physics, mathematics and even finance and economics, read the associated pdf documentation available from the xmds web site: http://www.xmds.org. OPTIONS
-t, --template Output a template either to the terminal or to an optionally specified file -h, --help Display help and usage information -v, --verbose Turn on verbose information output -n, --nocompile Turn off automatic compilation of output code -d, --debug Turn on debugging information in processing of xmds script -x, --xmldebug Turn on debugging information in parsing of xml code FILES
Directory for storing fftw wisdom files: ${HOME}/.xmds/wisdom/ Preferences file: ${HOME}/.xmds/xmds.prefs or <path-to-script-directory>/xmds.prefs EXAMPLES
xmds nlse.xmds xmds -t new_xmds_file.xmds xmds --template > new_xmds_file.xmds AUTHORS
Originally written by Greg Collecutt Maintained by Paul Cochrane with code contributed by Joe Hope BUGS
No known bugs. SEE ALSO
xsil2graphics(1), loadxsil(1) COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2000-2004 Code contributed by Greg Collecutt, Joseph Hope and Paul Cochrane This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER- CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. perl v5.8.2 2004-06-21 XMDS(1)
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