Findutils

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 page	http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/findutils.html
Source tarball	http://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	James Youngman <jay@gnu.org>
Developers	Eric B. Decker David J. MacKenzie Jim Meyering Tim Wood Kevin Dalley <kevind@rahul.net> Paul Eggert James Youngman <jay@gnu.org>

Related information

Interfaces	terminal, command line
Programs	find, locate, xargs
Source languages	C
Related programs	fileutils

Entry information

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

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