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Finding files for which a command fails
Finding a substring in files across subdirectories with a single built-in command?Find a file in lots of zip files (like find command for directories)Which command to use to find all files/folders with non-default permissions?Finding all kinds of extensions referenced in a html fileList files recursively in Linux CLI with path relative to the current directory, max 250 charStopping find command after finding files in one directoryFind command fails to copy few filesFinding files that have been modified using a script?Finding files and directories with different umaskUsing “find” non-recursively?
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I would like to recursively find all the files for which a script which accepts a file as an argument returns a non-zero value. Any idea how to do this using 'find' or a similar tool?
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I would like to recursively find all the files for which a script which accepts a file as an argument returns a non-zero value. Any idea how to do this using 'find' or a similar tool?
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I would like to recursively find all the files for which a script which accepts a file as an argument returns a non-zero value. Any idea how to do this using 'find' or a similar tool?
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find
’s -exec
action can be used for this:
find . ! -exec yourscript ; -print
will print the names of all files for which yourscript
fails.
-exec
can be used in this way to turn appropriate external commands into find
tests.
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find
’s -exec
action can be used for this:
find . ! -exec yourscript ; -print
will print the names of all files for which yourscript
fails.
-exec
can be used in this way to turn appropriate external commands into find
tests.
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find
’s -exec
action can be used for this:
find . ! -exec yourscript ; -print
will print the names of all files for which yourscript
fails.
-exec
can be used in this way to turn appropriate external commands into find
tests.
add a comment |
find
’s -exec
action can be used for this:
find . ! -exec yourscript ; -print
will print the names of all files for which yourscript
fails.
-exec
can be used in this way to turn appropriate external commands into find
tests.
find
’s -exec
action can be used for this:
find . ! -exec yourscript ; -print
will print the names of all files for which yourscript
fails.
-exec
can be used in this way to turn appropriate external commands into find
tests.
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