How to exit/break from nested if-else statement once conditions are met - shell

Question

I have a script that uses nested if-else statements to search for files. I want the script to exit once the conditions are met for any one of the nested statement.
But the script still continues to run through the all the remaining if-else statements.
I have tested using exit 0 and return 0 but neither works.
Here's the script:
#!/bin/sh
PATH1=/filer1_vol1_dir1
PATH2=/filer2_vol1_dir1
PATH3=/filer3_vol1_dir2
PATTERN=fruits
find $PATH1 -type f -name "*$PATTERN*" -exec ls -l {} \; >> /tmp/${PATTERN}_search
if [[ -s /tmp/${PATTERN}_search && `grep -i apples /tmp/${PATTERN}_search` ]]
then
echo "Matching files have been found under $PATH1"
cat /tmp/${PATTERN}_search
return 0
else
echo "No matching files, proceeding to search $PATH2"
find $PATH2 -type f -name "*$PATTERN*" -exec ls -l {} \; >> /tmp/${PATTERN}_search
if [[ -s /tmp/${PATTERN}_search && `grep -i apples /tmp/${PATTERN}_search` ]]
then
echo "Matching files have been found under $PATH2"
cat /tmp/${PATTERN}_search
return 0
else
echo "No matching files, proceeding to search $PATH3"
find $PATH3 -type f -name "*$PATTERN*" -exec ls -l {} \; >> /tmp/${PATTERN}_search
if [[ -s /tmp/${PATTERN}_search && `grep -i apples /tmp/${PATTERN}_search` ]]
then
echo "Matching files have been found under $PATH3"
cat /tmp/${PATTERN}_search
return 0
else
echo "No file matches, please search elsewhere"
return 0
fi
fi
fi
exit 0

Answer 1

I have found that the better way is to use a while loop to iterate through each search. Within each iteration, an if-else condition will test if files matching the find pattern are found. Once this condition is true, a break statement was able to stop the script.
Sample script below:
#!/bin/sh
PATH1=/filer1_vol1_dir1
PATH2=/filer2_vol1_dir1
PATH3=/filer3_vol1_dir2
PATTERN=fruits
echo $PATH1 > /tmp/PATH.list
echo $PATH2 >> /tmp/PATH.list
echo $PATH3 >> /tmp/PATH.list
echo /tmp/PATH.list contains
cat /tmp/PATH.list
echo
cat /dev/null > /tmp/${PATTERN}_search.list
while read PATH
do
echo "Searching under the following parameters"
echo PATTERN = $PATTERN
echo PATH = $PATH
echo
/usr/bin/find $PATH -type f -name "*$PATTERN*" -exec ls -l {} \; >> /tmp/${PATTERN}_search.list
/usr/bin/grep -i apples /tmp/${PATTERN}_search.list
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
echo "All matching files have been found."
break
else
echo "No matches found, continuing search in next directory."
fi
done < /tmp/PATH.list
exit 0