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Findutils - Tools to find files and to operate on groups of files

The program includes:
find
Finds files that match certain criteria and performs arbitrary operations on them.
locate
Scans a database for file names that match a pattern
xargs
Applies a command to a list of files


Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/findutils.html
Source tarballhttp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/findutils/findutils-4.1.tar.gz
Version 4.1 (stable) released on 1994-11-04
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is a GNU package.

Documentation
User manual included and available online from http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/find.html
Support contacts

Bug List<bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers

Related information

Interfacesterminal, command line
Programsfind, locate, xargs
Source languagesC
Related programsfileutils

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-01-31
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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