N900: find does not know -exec
 

I am using Maemo 5, Version 10.2010.19-1 on N900.

When doing a
find . -type f -exec grep "somthing" {} \;
then I get an error message
"find: unrecognized: -exec"

Is the find command different on ash?
Documentation says that it is the same.

Re: N900: find does not know -exec
 

btw. it´s not bash (you can install it) it´s busybox and also you can install find separately IIRC.

Re: N900: find does not know -exec
 

On the n900, find is provided by busybox, which likely does not provide the -exec option to find.

Re: N900: find does not know -exec
 

The N900 comes with busybox. Busybox doesn't use the GNU coreutils utilities/commands instead it has watered downed versions with less features. BASH vs ASH is mostly syntax related.

Install this: http://maemo.org/packages/view/coreutils-gnu/
Or simply compile coreutils in scratchbox yourself and copy over the binary find command.
Woops find is not part of coreutils but instead findutils.

Re: N900: find does not know -exec
 

Thanks.

Does "findutils-gnu v4.4.2-1maemo7"
http://maemo.org/downloads/product/M...findutils-gnu/
also do the trick?

Re: N900: find does not know -exec
 

That's probably why they put xargs in findutils.

busybox find + xargs = good

Re: N900: find does not know -exec
 

Indeed, piping to xargs is generally a much better option than -exec.

I think you'll find it's not, the Maemo busybox is configured with support for find -print0 but not xargs -0 :-(

Re: N900: find does not know -exec
 

Xargs is nice.. but... Shell is pretty versatile

Remember to enclose "$file" in double-quotes..

Re: N900: find does not know -exec
 

So true, but lucky me, I have yet to come across an n900 file name of interest that has spaces or newlines.

Re: N900: find does not know -exec
 

True, and even a read loop is going to be faster than -exec anyway (though a bit more verbose to type). For anything more advanced one can always pull out File::Find.