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- # Automatically generated decoration file for /archive/contents/find
- #
- # This file and any information not otherwise attributed is
- # Copyright 1994 by Ready-to-Run Software, Inc.
- #
- # All Rights Reserved
- #
- *DESCRIPTION*
- GNU find utilities - version 4.1
-
- GNU find and xargs comply with POSIX 1003.2 draft 11.1. They also have
- some additional options.
-
- GNU find has among other enhancements:
-
- option to measure times (for -amin, -atime, -cmin, -ctime, -mmin,
- and -mtime) from the beginning of today rather than from 24 hours ago.
-
- process each directory's contents before the directory itself.
-
- user settable maximum search depth.
-
- option to not apply any tests or actions at levels less than a user
- specified level.
-
- option to not descend directories on other filesystems.
-
- test for filesystem type.
-
- ******************************************************************************
- GNU xargs build and execute command lines from standard input,
- an alternative to the standard xargs, it adds features, including:
-
- If the standard input does not contain any nonblanks, do not
- run the command. Normally, the command is run once even if
- there is no input.
-
- Run more than one process at a time (up to a user specified
- limit).
-
- ******************************************************************************
- GNU locate - list files in a database that match a pattern
-
- For each given pattern, which can contain shell-style metacharacters,
- locate searches a database of file pathnames and displays the
- pathnames that contain the pattern.
-
- The database contains a list of the files that were on the system
- whenever the database was last updated. The frequency with which the
- database is updated and the directories for which it contains entries
- are configurable by the system administrator.
- .
- *LICENSE*
- GNU find is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- any later version.
-
- GNU find is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- GNU General Public License for more details.
-
- The locate utility is based on James Woods' public domain fast-find
- code, which is also distributed with the 4.3BSD find.
-
- .
- *APPNOTES*
- In order for locate to do its job, the shell script "updatedb" must be
- run first (updatedb is stored in the "lib/locate" subdirectory of the
- install tree. You may tailor the scope of the locate by tailoring the
- variables in the script.
-
- You may also want to add a crontab entry to have locate run automatically
- at off hours. Here at Ready-to-Run Software, we use the following
- crontab entries:
-
- # Entry in /usr/spool/cron/crontabs/root on most machines
- # This entry runs updatedb every morning at 1:15
- 15 1 * * * /usr/local/bin/updatedb
-
- # Entry in /usr/lib/crontab on DECstation
- # This entry runs updatedb every morning at 1:15
- 15 1 * * * /usr/local/bin/updatedb
- .
-
- *FILEGROUP* Grouping:Shared: Heading:Unformatted Man pages:
- man/man1/find.1
- man/man1/locate.1
- man/man1/updatedb.1
- man/man1/xargs.1
- man/man5/locatedb.5
- .
-
- *FILEGROUP* Grouping:Shared: Heading:Formatted Man pages:
- man/cat1/find.1
- man/cat1/locate.1
- man/cat1/updatedb.1
- man/cat1/xargs.1
- man/cat5/locatedb.5
- .
-
- *FILEGROUP* Grouping:Shared: Heading:Info files:
- slib/emacs/info/find.info
- slib/emacs/info/find.info-1
- slib/emacs/info/find.info-2
- .
-
- *FILEGROUP* Grouping:Shared: Heading:Texinfo files:
- texinfo/find.texi
- .
-
- *FILEGROUP* Grouping:Shared: Heading:PostScript Format Documentation:
- doc/find/find.ps
- .
-
- *FILEGROUP* Grouping:Shared: Heading:DVI Format Documentation:
- doc/find/find.dvi
- .
-
- *FILEGROUP* Required
- bin/find
- bin/locate
- bin/updatedb
- bin/xargs
- lib/exec/bigram
- lib/exec/code
- lib/exec/frcode
- .
-