How to check if find command didn't find anything?

Question

I know that is possible to use for loop with find command like that

for i in `find $something`; do (...) done

but I want to use find comma

Answer 1

Exit 0 is easy with find, exit >0 is harder because that usually only happens with an error. However we can make it happen:

if find -type f -exec false {} +
then
  echo 'nothing found'
else
  echo 'something found'
fi