Computing Resources in ESCI
Unix Software: System: Find Tools
Description
A collection of programs to help find files in heirarchical file systems.
Location
/usr/site/findutils
Commands
find - the standard UNIX file finder.
locate - a more sophisticated, faster file finder which maintains a separate database of file info.
updatedb - create/update the databases which locate uses to find files.
xargs - build up a command line from separate lines of standard input and execute it one or more times.
Documentation
See the individual man pages for the commands listed above
for documentation.
See Also
Questions? Comments? Please contact Mary Cochran.