Findutils
Encyclopedia
Findutils is a GNU package which offers basic file searching utilities to search the systems directories of GNU
and Unix
based computers. It contains implementations of the tools find
, locate, updatedb, and xargs
.
GNU
GNU is a Unix-like computer operating system developed by the GNU project, ultimately aiming to be a "complete Unix-compatible software system"...
and Unix
Unix-like
A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification....
based computers. It contains implementations of the tools find
Find
In Unix-like and some other operating systems, find is a command-line utility that searches through one or more directory trees of a file system, locates files based on some user-specified criteria and applies a user-specified action on each matched file...
, locate, updatedb, and xargs
Xargs
xargs is a command on Unix and most Unix-like operating systems used to build and execute command lines from standard input. Under the Linux kernel before version 2.6.23, arbitrarily long lists of parameters could not be passed to a command, so xargs breaks the list of arguments into sublists small...
.