[bug #62268] [feature request] -quit N to make find exit immediately with a certain exit code

Update of bug #62268 (group findutils):

                Severity:              3 - Normal => 1 - Wish               

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Follow-up Comment #2:

Another problem with this is that there are already things which affect find's
exit code.   They don't necessarily cause find to exit immediately.   But the
non-zero exit value serves to tell the caller that the output of find may have
bewn incorrect or incomplete.

Allowing for example "-exit 0" would hide those failures from the caller.   So
I am not keen on this idea.

But the comparison with NetBSD is somewhat interesting.   I wonder how
frequently the feature is actually used.

Meanwhile though, if you want to be able to do this kind of thing with GNU
find as-is, use -fprint -quit and check the file after find has exited.


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