find: missing argument to `-exec'

This error message occurs when the `find` command is used with the `-exec` flag, but no command is provided to execute. To fix the error, you need to provide a command to execute along with the `-exec` flag. For example:

find . -type f -name "*.txt" -exec cat {} \;

In this example, the `cat` command is executed on each file that matches the criteria specified by `find`. The `{}` placeholder is replaced by the filename of each file found by `find`. The `\;` at the end of the command tells `find` that the command for each file is complete.

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shell find: missing argument to `-exec'

这个错误通常是因为在使用 `find` 命令的 `-exec` 参数时，没有正确地指定要执行的命令。请检查你的命令中是否正确地使用了 `{}` 和 `;`。`{}` 表示当前 `find` 命令搜索到的文件名，而 `;` 表示命令的结束。例如，正确的使用方式是：

find /path/to/search -name "*.txt" -exec rm {} \;

这个命令会在 `/path/to/search` 目录及其子目录中查找所有以 `.txt` 结尾的文件，并将它们删除。请注意，在使用 `-exec` 参数时，命令最后必须以 `\;` 结尾，否则会出现 `missing argument to '-exec'` 错误。