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I am having problem with the find and grep commands. I want to find the files which are *.doc and match the pattern Danish from that file with grep command. I am using -exec to combine them but it give an error i do not know what is that. It said that the -exec argument is missing.

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    Please don't post screenshots of text. Copy the text here and apply code formatting. And there should be a space between {} and + or ;.
    – muru
    Feb 1, 2016 at 7:04
  • And if you're using ; escape it: \;.
    – kos
    Feb 1, 2016 at 7:08
  • That's a typical beginner's mistake which I also made quite a few times until I found that out... ;-)
    – Byte Commander ♦
    Feb 1, 2016 at 7:17

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You have to escape the ;:

find -iname .... -exec echo {} \;

Will do what you want.

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    The space before it is also mandatory, otherwise you get the same error.
    – kos
    Feb 1, 2016 at 7:11
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Unless you put a backslash before the ;, the shell will interpret that as a command separator, not as an argument to find command.

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    And a space before it, otherwise you get the same error.
    – kos
    Feb 1, 2016 at 7:12

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