On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 07:18:23AM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote:
> 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
>
committed now, with ok from tb.
thanks for the mail,
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
> >
