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Findutils



`find' is a program which searches a directory tree
to find a file or group of files.
It walks the directory tree and reports all occurences
of a file matching the user's specifications.


`locate' scans one or more databases of filenames and displays any matches.


`xargs' builds and executes command lines by gathering together
arguments it reads on the standard input.
Most often, these arguments are lists of file names generated by `find'.



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11 Dec 1999 jonas