Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] -exec false?
Date: Sunday, 06 Sep 2020, 09:24:23

	      tion for examples of the use of the -exec option.  The specified
	      command  is run once for
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    > Under what conditions do -exec returns 'false' when evaluating the expression? -exec command ;

As stated in "man find", the action of -exec is

  Execute command; true if 0 status is  returned.

Thus -exec returns true if the status of the command
(i.e., the value returned by system()) is 0 and false
otherwise.

--Stan-