Re: How to just print the first n entries found?

James Youngman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.findutils.bugs
Message-ID <CAGwX764BsOHK+x60p99U3JdU-edGhPkBBtRmwRmnHSF7iptjuw@mail.gmail.com> 
On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 12:18 AM Peng Yu <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't find `find` has an option to limit the entries to print only
> to the first n entries. Is there such an option available? Thanks.

For n=1, there is find -quit.   For n > 1, there is the head(1) command.

Thanks.
James.
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