Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] -exec question?
Date: Sunday, 13 Sep 2020, 21:14:10

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > Is there any way to know if -exec will evaluate to true or false without
    > system(). If we run system() then the program will execute the command but
    > say if the overall expression is false then shouldn't we not execute the
    > -exec flag?

There is no way to tell whether -exec evaluates to
to true or false without executing the command, in
our case by calling system().

--Stan-