Here is a one-liner that I believe does what you want:

find /tmp -name something | egrep '.*' 

The return status will be 0 when something is found, and non-zero otherwise.

If you also need to capture the output of find for further processing, then Sven's answer has covered that.

find /tmp -name something | grep . 

The return status will be 0 when something is found, and non-zero otherwise.

EDIT: Changed from egrep '.*' to the much simpler grep ., since the result is the same.

Here is a one-liner that I believe does what you want:

find /tmp -name something | egrep '.*' 

The return status will be 0 when something is found, and non-zero otherwise.

If you also need to capture the output of find for further processing, then SvenW's answer has covered that.

Here is a one-liner that I believe does what you want:

find /tmp -name something | egrep '.*' 

The return status will be 0 when something is found, and non-zero otherwise.

If you also need to capture the output of find for further processing, then Sven's answer has covered that.