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author | Aleksej Bobylev <al.bobylev@gmail.com> |
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date | Thu May 10 22:58:32 2018 +0300 (2018-05-10) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/findutils/description.txt Thu May 10 22:58:32 2018 +0300 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ 1.4 +The Findutils package contains programs to find files. These programs are 1.5 +provided to recursively search through a directory tree and to create, 1.6 +maintain, and search a database (often faster than the recursive find, but 1.7 +unreliable if the database has not been recently updated). 1.8 + 1.9 +The package contains: 1.10 + 1.11 + * `find` - Searches given directory trees for files matching the specified 1.12 + criteria 1.13 + * `locate` - Searches through a database of file names and reports the names 1.14 + that contain a given string or match a given pattern 1.15 + * `updatedb` - Updates the locate database; it scans the entire file system 1.16 + (including other file systems that are currently mounted, unless told not 1.17 + to) and puts every file name it finds into the database 1.18 + * `xargs` - Can be used to apply a given command to a list of files