how to (politely) stop a find process after the 1st match
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April 26, 2007, 12:26 am
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LazyWeb,
I’m on windows(cygwin); Every now and then, I run a “find” task which finds the file and then continues searching for a lot more time . I’d like it to abort after the 1st match.
eg : find . -type f – iname “foo.txt” -exec xemacs.bat {} ;
Is there a way to tell find that “hey, after you find the 1st match(a file), do the exec piece and then quit the find part of it ?
I know that I could create a .bat file that finds who its parent process is and terminates it. But is there a more nicer way ? 🙂
Thanks for any hints.
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Don’t use -exec
find . -type f -iname “foo.txt”|head -1 |xemacs.bat –
This, of course, presumes that the first foo.txt is always the right one.
Comment by Gautam Guliani June 14, 2007 @ 9:27 pmHi Gautam,
Thanks for the tip. That works!! Now I have one more convenience batch file
BR,
Comment by anjanb June 16, 2007 @ 12:37 am~A