On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> The shell is interpreting the final semicolon before the find command has a
> chance to get to it. Instead, use
>
> find . -maxdepth 1 -name "2*" -exec ./slideshow {} \;
Doh. I tried that, the trick is the space between the {} and the \;
I must have tried everything appart from the space.
/me sleeks away
Rodos
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