GNU Find Utilities

GNU Find Utilities
Developer(s) GNU Project
Stable release 4.6.0 / December 28, 2015 (2015-12-28)
Written in C
Operating system Unix-like
Type Miscellaneous Utilities
License GNU GPL
Website www.gnu.org/software/findutils/

The GNU Find Utilities or 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.[1] However, locate and updatedb has been split off into a separate package in latest versions in various Linux distributions.

Programs included in findutils

See also

References

  1. "Findutils Project Page". Free Software Foundation.

External links


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