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bug#23451: 25.0.93; Clarify the dependency on find/grep for platforms no
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Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#23451: 25.0.93; Clarify the dependency on find/grep for platforms not having those tools |
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Mon, 29 May 2017 07:19:46 +0300 |
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On May 29, 2017 5:58:08 AM GMT+03:00, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
>Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
>
>> 4. See the user error about status 1, and the message containing four
>> grep hits. Doing this search with Ag confirms the same set of hits
>> (with normal exit status).
>>
>> Could someone please explain why find-grep exits with status 1 here?
>
>I see the same exit status when running find ... -exec grep ... + from
>the shell. It seems that -exec <cmd> + will cause 'find' to exit with
>status 1 if the <cmd> exits with status 1:
>
> ~$ find . -exec false '{}' + ; echo $?
> 1
> ~$ find . -exec true '{}' + ; echo $?
> 0
>
>So when <cmd> is grep, and the number of files is greater than the
>command line length limit, the exit status is effectively random (it
>depends on 'find' decides to group the batches of files it passes to
>'grep').
Isn't this simply the consequence of grep returning non-zero status
for files that didn't match?
- bug#23451: 25.0.93; Clarify the dependency on find/grep for platforms not having those tools, Dmitry Gutov, 2017/05/28
- bug#23451: 25.0.93; Clarify the dependency on find/grep for platforms not having those tools, Dmitry Gutov, 2017/05/28
- bug#23451: 25.0.93; Clarify the dependency on find/grep for platforms not having those tools, npostavs, 2017/05/28
- bug#23451: 25.0.93; Clarify the dependency on find/grep for platforms not having those tools, Dmitry Gutov, 2017/05/29
- bug#23451: 25.0.93; Clarify the dependency on find/grep for platforms not having those tools, npostavs, 2017/05/29
- bug#23451: 25.0.93; Clarify the dependency on find/grep for platforms not having those tools, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/05/29
- bug#23451: 25.0.93; Clarify the dependency on find/grep for platforms not having those tools, Dmitry Gutov, 2017/05/29
- bug#23451: 25.0.93; Clarify the dependency on find/grep for platforms not having those tools, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/05/30
- bug#23451: 25.0.93; Clarify the dependency on find/grep for platforms not having those tools, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/05/30
- bug#23451: 25.0.93; Clarify the dependency on find/grep for platforms not having those tools, Dmitry Gutov, 2017/05/29