URL:
<https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54730>
Summary: Add additional valuable example of find -quit
Project: findutils
Submitted by: jidanni
Submitted on: Wed 26 Sep 2018 02:34:51 AM UTC
Category: documentation
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Privacy: Public
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Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release: 4.6.0
Fixed Release: None
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Details:
On man find we see:
-quit Exit immediately. No child processes will be left running,
but no more paths specified on the command
line will be processed. For example, find /tmp/foo /tmp/bar
-print -quit will print only /tmp/foo. Any
command lines which have been built up with -execdir ... {} +
will be invoked before find exits. The exit
status may or may not be zero, depending on whether an error has
already occurred.
Also add an example:
Indeed this can be used to quit immediately if any -exec has an error:
$ find \( -exec perl -e if {} \; -o -quit \)
syntax error at -e line 1, at EOF
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
Instead of the error repeating 1000 times.
(The error message came from perl.)
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