why th efollowing error occurs in perl?

[finddata]

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[afoken]

Please stop creating new threads for the same problem. Stay in one thread, that makes it much easier for everyone willing to help.

And by the way, this is not a perl error. Perl isn't even reporting it. See find.

Alexander

[hippo]

Do you use a search engine? I do. That's how I find things like find: missing argument to -exec which contains a detailed answer to this question.

[huck]

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/find.1.html

is htmlfiles supposed to be a directory, that sure wont work. even if it was

 
find . -type f -execdir cp '{}' htmlfiles \;

It wont work unless the htmlfiles dir exists already