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Find command return type 1 year, 4 months ago #528

scmuser OFFLINE Gold Boarder scm master Posts: 237 Points: 3429 Karma: 0	I am looking for following answer if anybody can help me out... How to Return a message when a file is not found using find command? OR Find command return type OR when the file is not found i want it to return some value OR
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Re: Find command return type 1 year, 4 months ago #533

tpatil OFFLINE Junior Boarder Posts: 27 Points: 5106 Karma: 0	You can use exit code of find command to return the message. e..g. find . -name abc.txt > dev/null if test $? -eq 0 then echo "File found" else echo "File Not Found" fi Hope this helps...
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Re: Find command return type 1 year, 4 months ago #534

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Hi..

I guess following script will not work. The problem here is find command does always return true value no matter if find is available or not.

this is unique things in find command.

I feel we should go ahead in this way.

find . -name raj.txt > raj.txt
counter= `cat abc.txt | wc -l'
 
if [$counter -gt 0]
then
	echo "File is found"
else
	echo "File is not found"
fi

please let us your inputs on this

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Rajesh Kumar
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Re: Find command return type 1 year, 4 months ago #536

tpatil OFFLINE Junior Boarder Posts: 27 Points: 5106 Karma: 0	Thanks Rajesh...You are right. I tried with my code. Find always retuns 0 though file not found.
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