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- Major changes in release 4.1:
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- * Distribution renamed to findutils.
- * updatedb is now a user command, installed in $exec_prefix/bin
- instead of $exec_prefix/libexec.
- * A few problems in Makefiles and testsuite corrected.
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- Major changes in release 4.0:
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- * Documentation:
- ** Texinfo manual.
- ** Man page for updatedb.
- ** Man page for the locate database formats.
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- * find:
- ** Takes less CPU time on long paths, because it uses chdir to descend
- trees, so it does fewer inode lookups.
- ** Does not get trapped in symbolic link loops when -follow is given.
- ** Supports "-fstype afs" if you have /afs and /usr/afsws/include
- and you configure using the --with-afs option.
- ** New action -fls FILE; like -ls but writes to FILE.
-
- * locate:
- ** Supports a new database format, which is 8-bit clean and
- allows machines with diffent byte orderings and integer sizes to
- share the databases. The new locate can also detect and read the
- old database format automatically. The new databases are typically
- 30% or more larger than the old ones (due to allowing all 8 bits in
- file names). Search times are approximately the same, or faster on
- some systems.
- ** Warns if a file name database is more than 8 days old.
-
- * updatedb:
- ** Takes command-line options.
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- * xargs:
- ** Performance improved 10-20%.
- ** The EOF string is not used when -0 is given.
- ** Now has a test suite. Some minor bugs fixed as a result.
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- Major changes in release 3.8:
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- * case insensitive versions of -lname, -name, -path, -regex:
- -ilname, -iname, -ipath, -iregex
- * %F directive for -printf, -fprintf to print file system type
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- Major changes in release 3.7:
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- * locate can search multiple databases
- * locate has an option to specify the database path
- * updatedb no longer goes into an infinite loop with some versions of tail
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