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From: Franky Van Liedekerke <liedekef@telenet.be>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:59:01 +0000
Subject: Re: [mlmmj] mlmmj-maintd recursively
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On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:19:31 +1100
Ben Schmidt <mail_ben_schmidt@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> >>>>> find /var/spool/mlmmj/ -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d \
> >>>>> -exec /usr/bin/mlmmj-maintd -F -d {} \;
> >>>>
> > The trailing \; is generally required too. Without it the shell
> > can/will treat the ; as a command separator rather than a command
> > argument. Some versions of find may be happy without the ; at the
> > end of exec but not all are.
> 
> Yep, I've left that there too, I think. I'll double check. My find
> definitely needs it.
> 
> Thanks for mentioning, Richard.
> 
> Ben.

Hi,

Just fyi: the ";" at the end marks the end of the exec part of the find
command and always needs to be escaped.

Franky