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I am trying to run this on shell

find . -name 'node_modules' -exec cp -ra --parents \{\} /home/project/xwa/packages/custom

and i am getting find: missing argument to -exec'` , kindly help me .

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You forgot the ; argument (which needs to be escaped to prevent the shell from treating it as a shell command terminator).

find . -name 'node_modules' \ -exec cp -ra --parents \{\} /home/project/xwa/packages/custom \;
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Try using:

find . -name 'node_modules' -exec cp -ra --parents {} /home/project/xwa/packages/custom \;

You don't need to escape the curly brackets and you terminate it with \;

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