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 Assigned to: None Originator Name: Originator Email: Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Release: 4.6.0 Fixed Release: None _______________________________________________________ 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.) _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54730> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/