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GNU Find Utilities

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Developer(s)
  
GNU Project

Operating system
  
Unix-like

Written in
  
C

License
  
GNU GPL

GNU Find Utilities

Stable release
  
4.6.0 / December 28, 2015; 14 months ago (2015-12-28)

Type
  
Miscellaneous Utilities

The GNU Find Utilities or findutils is a GNU package which offers basic file searching utilities to search the systems directories of GNU and Unix based computers. It contains implementations of the tools find, locate, updatedb, and xargs. However, locate and updatedb has been split off into a separate package in latest versions in various Linux distributions.

Programs included in findutils

  • find - search for files in a directory hierarchy
  • locate - list files in databases that match a pattern
  • updatedb - update a file name database
  • xargs - build and execute command lines from standard input

    • References

    GNU Find Utilities Wikipedia
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