[plug] error in find command

Ryan King ryank at globaldial.com
Wed Aug 17 09:54:54 WST 2005


find . -name '*executable*' -exec rm {} \;

Ryan

On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 10:01 +0800, Jon Miller wrote:
> Trying to fix a command that deletes all files with the word executable in it using the following command
> find ./ -name "executable" -exec rm {};/
> But I keep getting a error message stating that there is an missing argument to -exec any idea?
> 
> Thanks
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