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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            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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