From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 9 17:59:59 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 35A54106566B for ; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 17:59:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email1.allantgroup.com (email1.emsphone.com [199.67.51.115]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1CA28FC15 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 17:59:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email1.allantgroup.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id n39HxvO2038395 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:59:57 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n39HxuVM073093 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:59:56 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n39Hxs6T073092; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:59:54 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:59:54 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Jay Hall Message-ID: <20090409175954.GC90152@dan.emsphone.com> References: <18E2669B-9EC4-4F63-8B1C-E7D81EBDD607@socket.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <18E2669B-9EC4-4F63-8B1C-E7D81EBDD607@socket.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.94.1, clamav-milter version 0.94.1 on email1.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (email1.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:59:57 -0500 (CDT) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.45 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 17:59:59 -0000 In the last episode (Apr 09), Jay Hall said: > 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? Since the find manpage says: -exec utility [argument ...] ; True if the program named utility returns a zero value as its exit status. ... It has to wait for completion to see the exit status. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com