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[Karl Auer]

> is there a way to get "find" to return only when a file is NOT found?


Read "man find". Look under "OPERATORS" and check out the "!" operator.
It inverts the sense of a test.

So this:

   find -name "xxx*" -print

will print all filenames matching "xxx*", but this

   find ! -name "xxx*" -print

will print all filenames NOT matching "xxx*".
Regards, K.
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