On 07Mar2011 16:34, Kevin Martin <kevintm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| Strangely enough, if I'm in a directory and do a "find . -name e" (where e doesn't exist) I get *no* failed message and an exit code
| of 0. I find that a bit odd as I would think that "find e" and "find . -name e" would be the same thing. Perhaps that's something
| to do with the bash shell?
No, it just means that find has successfully searched your directory and
encountered no errors. Something like a directory it could not search
etc would evince a non-zero status.
One approach might be like this:
find the-dir -name e >find.output
if [ -s find.output ]
then
echo file found
else
echo file no found
fi
Of course, you will often want to check that exactly one file was found,
etc. For example:
nfiles=`wc -l <find.output`
case $nfiles in
0) echo nothing found ;;
1) the_file=$(<find.output)
echo found $the_file
;;
*) echo $nfiles files found
;;
esac
Cheers,
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