On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 11:58:07AM +0400, Denis Antrushin wrote: > 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... > What about this: > > test -n "`find . -type f -newer ../src.tar.gz`" && echo hi
I believe Alfred's problem with this is that it will still traverse the whole hierarchy even after a match is found. In some cases, the hierarchy may be huge, and if the match is within the first 100-200 files, well... :) I wonder if it wouldn't be a bit better to add to find(1) something like -maxmatches N, similar to Alfred's idea, but not limited to a single match? G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 No language can express every thought unambiguously, least of all this one.
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