The findutils package consists of three programs."find" is a program which searches a directorytree to find a file or group of files. It walksthe directory tree and reports all occurrences ofa file matching the user's specifications."locate" scans one or more databases of filenamesand displays any matches. "xargs" builds andexecutes command lines by gathering togetherarguments it reads on the standard input. Mostoften, these arguments are lists of file namesgenerated by "find".
License: GNU General Public License v3
Changes:
Changes to gnulib's fts code should provideperformance improvements in find when processingvery large directories. File type information isalso passed back from fts to find, saving calls tothe stat system call for find command lines whichdon't need the stat information. This provides aperformance improvement for common cases like"find . -type d".
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12-08-2008
