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- .name
- find
- .fullname
- GNU find, xargs, and locate
- .type
- Programmer Tool
- .short
- Find, xargs, and locate; orig FSF source
- .description
- This package contains the GNU find, xargs, and locate programs. This
- version of find and xargs comply with POSIX 1003.2, and also support
- some additional options, some borrowed from Unix and some unique to
- GNU.
-
- To gain speed, GNU find now avoids statting files whenever possible.
- It does this by: (1) Checking the number of links to directories and
- not statting files that it knows aren't directories until it
- encounters a test or action that needs the stat info. (2) Rearranging
- the command line, where possible, so that it can do tests that don't
- require a stat before tests that do, in hopes that the latter will be
- skipped because of an OR or AND. (But it only does this where it will
- leave the output unchanged.)
-
- The locate utility is based on James Woods' public domain fast-find
- code, which is also distributed with the 4.3BSD find. Because POSIX
- requires `find foo' to have the same effect as `find foo -print', the
- fast-find searching has been moved to a separate program, `locate';
- the same thing has been done in 4.3BSD-reno/4.4BSD. If you use
- locate, you should run the included `updatedb' script from cron
- periodically (typically nightly).
-
- This gzip compressed tar archive is the original FSF source
- distribution before any Amiga specific changes were applied.
- 3.8
- .author
- Free Software Foundation
- .requirements
- Amiga binaries require ixemul.library.
- .distribution
- GNU Public License
- .described-by
- Fred Fish (fnf@fishpond.cygnus.com)
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