Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:08:14 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: "-exit" option for find(1) Message-ID: <20040726100814.GF76937@ip.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <20040716072341.GX95729@elvis.mu.org> References: <20040716071545.GW95729@elvis.mu.org> <20040716072341.GX95729@elvis.mu.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 12:23:41AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > I'm up too late, this doesn't work because find returns > success whenever it successfully runs thought everything. > > Perhaps the primary change to just "-exit" which would > make find exit successfully, and if the primary is never > encountered (ie. our find logic never hits it) find would > exit with a non-zero exit status? > > Ideas? Better ideas? > > The reason I want this is to avoid extracting a tarball > over a directory that has files in it that are newer than > the tarball. > > Neither tar nor find seem to make this easy... > [ `find . -type f -newer ../src.tar.gz |head -1 |wc -l` -eq 0 ] && echo hi Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBBNgOqRfpzJluFF4RAhaLAJ4uHgRsn1EvadzuUZ29DXmuGfU4tQCglNDt 8cQPL70vRbzGcH44aDhH6So= =WoBq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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