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


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