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[Jon LaBadie]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 06:26:57AM -0400, Michael Henry wrote:
> On 03/19/2010 03:47 PM, jecottrell3 at comcast.net wrote:
> 
> > And while the single file version of -exec returns an exit
> > status on each file, it's not clear that the multiple version
> > one does, meaning that find could indeed fork and execute as
> > two processes.
> 
> The ``find`` specification defines the return value of
> ``-exec ... +`` to be always true:
> 
>   http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/find.html
> 
>   If the primary expression is punctuated by a plus sign, the
>   primary shall always evaluate as true [...]

Another interesting difference.  The -exec ... ; primary can evaluate
false but the -exec ... + primary cannot.

Yet the exit status of find must be "failed" if any -exec ... +
execution fails.

Too much detail :)

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