Question

I’m trying to integrate checking my code using pyflakes into a building process. I’ve defined the following target in my Makefile:

pyflakes:
    find $(APPLICATION_DIRECTORY) -iname "*.py" -exec pyflakes "{}" \;

The problem is that find returns 0 every time even if there are code issues (pyflakes returns not 0) and make succeeds. Ideally, I want to run the check on every source file and stop make if at least one of -exec failed. Is there a way to achieve this?

Answer 1

I assume there is no way to make find return exit code of -exec.
What should work is piping to xargs:

find $(APPLICATION_DIRECTORY) -iname "*.py" |xargs -I file pyflakes file