From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 9 12:01:53 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47CB21065717 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:01:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhall@socket.net) Received: from mf5.socket.net (mf5d.socket.net [216.106.26.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FE418FC30 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:01:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhall@socket.net) Received: from [10.129.40.200] (216.106.12.48.reverse.socket.net [216.106.12.48]) by mf5.socket.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36D795E359 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 07:01:52 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <18E2669B-9EC4-4F63-8B1C-E7D81EBDD607@socket.net> From: Jay Hall To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 07:01:51 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) Subject: find command question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:02:01 -0000 When using the find command with the -exec option, does the find command wait for the command being executed to finish before returning the next result? For example, if I am using find -exec {} to copy files to tape, will find wait for the command to write the file to tape complete before it returns the next result? Thanks, Jay