In the last episode (Apr 09), Jay Hall said: > When using the find command with the -exec option, does the find command > wait for the command being executed to finish before returning the next > result? > > For example, if I am using find -exec {} to copy files to tape, will find > wait for the command to write the file to tape complete before it returns > the next result?
Since the find manpage says: -exec utility [argument ...] ; True if the program named utility returns a zero value as its exit status. ... It has to wait for completion to see the exit status. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"