GNU Find Utilities

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GNU Find Utilities

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Basic data

Maintainer GNU project
Current  version 4.7.0
(08/29/2019)
operating system unixoid system
programming language C.
License GNU General Public License
https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/

The GNU Find Utilities (also called findutils ) is a GNU package that provides basic file search tools for searching system directories of GNU and Unix systems . It consists of implementations of the tools find , locate , updatedb and xargs . However, "locate" and "updatedb" have been split into separate packages in the latest versions of various Linux distributions .

Programs in findutils

  • find - A program for searching files in a file hierarchy
  • locate - A program that matches and lists files according to a pattern in databases
  • updatedb - A program that updates filenames in a database
  • xargs - A program that creates and executes command lines from standard input

See also

Portal: Free Software  - Overview of Wikipedia content on the subject of Free Software

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Findutils Project Page . Free Software Foundation.