Re: Reg.. find command not working as expected in Ubuntu...

[raf]

On Sat, Dec 02, 2023 at 03:44:19PM +0000, Mannem Anil kumar 
<mannemanilkumar302@outlook.com> wrote:

>   Dear Concern,
>                                  As i was exploring Linux related commands, i 
> have executed the following command in terminal. Where that file is not 
> existed and find command not says that file is not found.
>                         After checking the previous command execution status 
> ($?=0) it shows success. Can you please check it.
> Same status for file available or not available. Checked with SH and BASH 
> shells. Same wrong output.
> Note: If file is there, it is displaying that location ($? =0).
> 
> Regards,
> Anil Kumar

Hi. That sounds like the correct behaviour. find doesn't report files that
aren't there. It reports files that it finds. If you search for a file
named foo with "find . -name foo", and foo doesn't exist, there will
be no output (because no matching file was found), and the exit status
will be zero to indicate that no errors were encountered during the search.
The exit status on Linux commands indicate whether or not an error occurred.
This is the case for all commands, not just find. Not finding a file is not
an error.

cheers,
raf