On 24Apr2011 23:23, Abhilash abhi <abhilashck72@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| Why there is no command `exec` in RHEL5.
|
| [root@localhost ~]# which exec
| /usr/bin/which: no exec in
| (/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin)
"exec" is a shell builtin; it _cannot_ be a standalone command.
| because of this i am not able to execute finds output using exec!!
Urr, or as another poster points out, the "exec" in find is a switch,
and is spelt "-exec". Eg:
find . -type d -exec ls -ld {} ';'
See "man find" for details.
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