Re: proposal: find -quit

[Dan Jacobson]

>> $ find tree -newer timestamp -exec sound_the_alarm \; -quit
James> ...sound_the_alarm could kill its parent...
OK, then
>> $ find tree -newer timestamp -print -quit
"All I need is one filename to prove Larry had been tampering"

Indeed, find(1) is like what 30 years old, and they never thought of a
simple -quit [implemented with just a exit() or whatever it is in C.
Ah, nice to have my Limited Edition brain.

Anyways, maybe call it -exit, and allow the user to give an optional
exit value, for extra flexibility!

Wait, maybe have a -exitvalue that will set find's exit value, but not
necessarily exit.  Then the user could use 
find ... -exitvalue 33 ... -o ... -exitvalue 44 ... -exit ...
in all kinds of interesting and varying ways to get maximum
flexibility.  When -exit is encountered, find exits with 0 or the
value it found it its last encounter with -exitvalue, if any.
Of course if there is a disk error or something, then find can exit
with its traditional exit value.

If worthy, do encode my ideas.
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