Finding files for which a command fails





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I would like to recursively find all the files for which a script which accepts a file as an argument returns a non-zero value. Any idea how to do this using 'find' or a similar tool?










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          find’s -exec action can be used for this:



          find . ! -exec yourscript {} ; -print


          will print the names of all files for which yourscript fails.



          -exec can be used in this way to turn appropriate external commands into find tests.






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            Equivalently, using -o (or): find . -exec yourscript {} ; -o -print.

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          find’s -exec action can be used for this:



          find . ! -exec yourscript {} ; -print


          will print the names of all files for which yourscript fails.



          -exec can be used in this way to turn appropriate external commands into find tests.






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          find’s -exec action can be used for this:



          find . ! -exec yourscript {} ; -print


          will print the names of all files for which yourscript fails.



          -exec can be used in this way to turn appropriate external commands into find tests.






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          find’s -exec action can be used for this:



          find . ! -exec yourscript {} ; -print


          will print the names of all files for which yourscript fails.



          -exec can be used in this way to turn appropriate external commands into find tests.






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          find’s -exec action can be used for this:



          find . ! -exec yourscript {} ; -print


          will print the names of all files for which yourscript fails.



          -exec can be used in this way to turn appropriate external commands into find tests.







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