GNU Find Utilities

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Developer(s) GNU Project Operating system Unix-like		Written in C License GNU GPL

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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