On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 02:27:54PM -0500, Kris Katterjohn wrote:
> Hey,
>
> The man page for find(1) does not mention when the -exec primary
> evaluates to true.
>
> -exec utility ... ; evaluates to true when the utility exits with a
> zero exit status, while -exec utility ... {} + always evaluates to true.
>
> I have a patch below with my attempt at a description. I tried to make
> the wording consistent with other parts of the man page.
>
> Cheers,
> Kris Katterjohn
>
morning.
i agree with documenting this, but i have a tweak for your diff, inline.
does anyone else want to comment or ok?
jmc
> Index: find.1
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/find/find.1,v
> retrieving revision 1.93
> diff -u -p -r1.93 find.1
> --- find.1 3 Jan 2017 22:19:31 -0000 1.93
> +++ find.1 30 Jul 2018 19:08:16 -0000
> @@ -222,6 +222,10 @@ or a plus sign
> If terminated by a semicolon, the
> .Ar utility
> is executed once per path.
> +This form of the primary evaluates to true if the invocation
> +of
i would remove "the invocation of"
> +.Ar utility
> +exits with a zero exit status.
> If the string
> .Qq {}
> appears anywhere in the utility name or the
> @@ -233,6 +237,7 @@ primary is evaluated are aggregated into
> .Ar utility
> will be invoked once per set, similar to
> .Xr xargs 1 .
> +This form of the primary always evaluates to true.
> If any invocation exits with a non-zero exit status, then
> .Nm
> will eventually do so as well, but this does not cause
>
