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I took your advice and retyped. Still getting the same error. If I type the command it works. If I run it from the ksh script I get the error:

find: missing argument to `-exec'

Hello,

I really still need some help in getting this script to work.

If I type out the command it works. If I put the exact same command in a .ksh script, I get the error:

Find: missing argument to `-exec`.

Why would it do this in the script and not at the command line?

First question:
Does the first line of the script look like this?

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

Next question:
does the output of this show any weird characters on the problem line

Code:

od -c myscript.sh

Finally - cut and paste (do not retype) the whole line that is a problem so we can read it. Include full command line above it and below it. Please give us the OS and shell -- ksh88 or ksh93.

Or a workaround

Code:

find /dir1/dir2 -type f -name "FILE.*" -newer /dir1/dir2/afterme.txt | \
while read filename 
do
    cp $filename /dir1/dir2/dir3/
done

I'm with Jim on this. The .ksh extension does not at all effect which shell will be invoked. If it's a sh with a different PATH than you run interactively, you could be getting another version of find than you get at the command line. Another thing to watch out for is DOS carriage returns in the script. You're not writing it on a Windoze machine and uploading it to your Unix account, are you?

No, I used vi to create the file. I had the #!/bin/ksh at the top of the line but I was getting this error:

: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

Here is the error I get when I run the above from the script:

: command not founde 1:
./scriptname.ksh: line 7: syntax error: unexpected end of file

I just don't get it. From the command line it works. From ./scriptname.ksh ERROR!