find: incomplete statement

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Argument for -c ends in backslash.

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# in my actual code, I had "rm" instead of "ls -l", but I figured this would be safer in an example.
system "/usr/local/bin/ssh $remote \"find $base_dir -mtime +$days -exec ls -l \\{} \\;\"" and
        warn "system: ssh: $!";