Error executing OS job

Question

Hi,
I am hoping someone can shed some light on an issue I am having with an OS job.
The job type is an OS script, using the bash shell (/bin/bash), running on RH Linux 4.0; the OS script is:
/usr/bin/find /u/dump/export -type f -ctime +7 -exec /bin/rm {}\;
The error is: /usr/bin/find: missing argument to `-exec'
If I take the above command and paste it into a command window, it executes without issue.
Has anyone seen this one before?
Thanks for any insight you can give me.
rr

Answer 1

Some sort of escaping problem I assume.
Do some debugging.
change to
echo "/usr/bin/find /u/dump/export -type f -ctime +7 -exec /bin/rm {}\;" > /tmp/junk
see whats in /tmp/junk
Try
/usr/bin/find /u/dump/export -type f -ctime +7 -exec \/bin\/rm {}\;
To escape out the command.