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Old 09-29-2009
How to get the exit code of -exec in the find command

Hi

I have a little problem with the find command in a script that I'm writing. The script should check if there are some files younger than 100 seconds and then syncronise them with rsync.

My find command:

Code:
find -type f -cmin -100 -exec rsync -a --delete directory1/ directory2/

When I check the exit code with $? I always get 0 even if I can be sure the rsync should fail. How can I get the exit code of the rsync and the find?

I allready contacted the man page but it didn't really helped me much.

Quote:
Find man page:
Execute command; true if 0 status is returned.

Last edited by Neo; 09-29-2009 at 05:10 AM.. Reason: code tags for commands, please.
# 2  
Old 09-29-2009
-cmin -100 is mean less than 100 minutes, not 100 seconds.

find with -exec will be used as below format, but I don't see the part of {} \; in your script.

Code:
find . -exec ls -l {} \;

# 3  
Old 09-29-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by rdcwayx
-cmin -100 is mean less than 100 minutes, not 100 seconds.

find with -exec will be used as below format, but I don't see the part of {} \; in your script.

Code:
find . -exec ls -l {} \;

Yes 100 mins is correct.

Does this part make any difference? The command itself works that I know. But when I try to make it fail, I don't get another exit code.

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What I have tried so far:

It came up in my mind, that this could work like a pipe. I found an information, that the exitcode of the first command in a pipe could get read (in a bash) by {$PIPESTATUS[0]}, the second command of the pipe by {$PIPESTATUS} and so on. But unfortunately it doesn't work in that case... Smilie
# 4  
Old 09-29-2009
I think it might be easier to run find and then store the results in a temporary file, then run a script to read the file and execute your rsync command.

You can easily get the exit code of rsync that way.
# 5  
Old 09-29-2009
Instead of using -exec, try using &&.

Code:
$ find . -cmin -100 -type f && rsync -a --delete directory1/ directory2/

# 6  
Old 09-29-2009
You could try and work find's internal boolean logic, eg.
Code:
find -type f -cmin -100 \( -exec rsync -a --delete directory1/ directory2/ \; -o -exec echo {} failed \; \)

# 7  
Old 09-29-2009
Thank you for your posts.

@Neo: that would be slower (i know not much but it need to be fast and slim)
@agn: thx will try that right now
@pludi: didn't know that this option exists, I'll try that too
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