how to write a find-exec loop that exits on failure

I was trying to figure this out for a command I needed to run in Grid, but, it's a useful pattern in general.

How to exit from find -exec if it fails on one of the files

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There are many times that I have no idea of where a command I use actually resides in the system. Sometimes I do, and what I'm calling is not the command that I know it should be, so ... How do you tell where the command that works from the command …

The link, How do I find all files containing specific text on Linux? shows how to use grep to accomplish this.

It also shows the typical find command that is recommended, which, like the poster, I didn't get to work for me either, so ...

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locate is a good alternative to using find

As noted in the finding the Tools/scripts subdirectory in stackoverflow:

This command

  $ locate "Tools/scripts/diff.py"

will find the location of the file if it's installed. This depends on the database generated regularly by the updatedb command (this usually runs …