>I'm not too hot on the -exec syntax for find (this may explain why I can >never get that part to work and start piping things to xargs, perhaps >unnecessarily!), I suspect it's the "\;" that I have problems with: >what's that all about, or is it just "the rule" that you must finish >your -exec "clause" with it? > Pretty much, you terminate the command with a semi colon but it (often) has to be escaped (or quoted) so that the shell doesn't interpret it first.
The grep -r option is not available in all *nixes which is why I do not favour it. MC _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
