How to run "find -exec <script> {}\;

Question

I have a script that changes the properties of the files for a folder.

Here is the example tree:

dir 1
    --file 1
    --file 2
    --file 3
dir 2
    --file 1
    --file 2
dir 3
    --file 1
    --file 2
    --file 3

I am running this command on the terminal for which I wan to run the shell script (script.sh) for every directory

find . -type d -exec ./script.sh {}\;

it does not run and errors' this:

find: missing argument to `-exec'

What am I missing here?

Solution

You are missing the space between {} and ; :

find . -type d -exec ./script.sh {} \;

Comments

[Olivier Dulac]

I 1) added quotes around {} to avoid the shell to interpret {} as "launch something in the current shell" instead of the literral "{}" string. 2) added a space after it so that exec sees the expected ";" indicating the end of the exec command (that was the point making it "barf" to you) 3) put full path to the script to launch, to avoid confusion (reader and/or program) about which script is launched...