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This package contains the GNU find, xargs, and locate programs. find
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and xargs comply with POSIX 1003.2, as far as I know (with the
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exception of the "+" modifier for the "-exec" action, which isn't
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implemented yet). They also support a large number of additional
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options, some borrowed from Unix and some unique to GNU.
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See the file NEWS for a list of major changes in the current release.
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See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.
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To verify the GPG signature of the release, you will need the public
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key of the findutils maintainer. You can download this from
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ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-keyring.gpg. Alternatively, you could query
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a PGP keyserver, but you will need to use one that can cope with
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subkeys containing photos. Many older key servers cannot do this. I
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use subkeys.pgp.net. I think that one works. See also the
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"Downloading" section of http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/.
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Special configure options:
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--with-afs
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Make find support "-fstype afs". Requires /afs, /usr/afsws/lib, and
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/usr/afsws/include. configure doesn't add AFS support
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automatically because it adds considerably to find's size, and the
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AFS libraries need -lucb on Solaris, which breaks find.
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--enable-id-cache
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Make tables of used UIDs and GIDs at startup instead of using
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getpwuid or getgrgid when needed. Speeds up -nouser and -nogroup
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unless you are running NIS or Hesiod, which make password and group
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calls very expensive.
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--enable-debug
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Produce output on the standard error output indicating what find is
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doing. This information includes details about how the command line
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has been parsed and what files have been stat()ed. This output is
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normally interesting only to the maintainer, and so is off by default.
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DEFAULT_ARG_SIZE=<value>
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If this environment variable is defined to a numeric expression
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during configure, it determines the default argument size limits used
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by xargs without -s, and by find, when spawning child processes.
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Otherwise, the default is set at 128 kibibytes. If the system cannot
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support the default limit, the system's limit will be used instead.
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To gain speed, GNU find avoids statting files whenever possible.
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It does this by:
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1. Checking the number of links to directories and not statting files
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that it knows aren't directories until it encounters a test or action
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that needs the stat info.
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2. Rearranging the command line, where possible, so that it can do
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tests that don't require a stat before tests that do, in hopes that
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the latter will be skipped because of a -o/-a conjunction. (But it
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only does this where it will leave the output unchanged.)
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The locate program and its helper programs are derived (heavily
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modified) from James Woods' public domain fast-find code, which is
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also distributed with the 4.3BSD find. Because POSIX.2 requires `find
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foo' to have the same effect as `find foo -print', the fast-find
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searching has been moved to a separate program, `locate'; the same
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thing has been done in 4.4BSD. If you use locate, you should run the
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included `updatedb' script from cron periodically (typically nightly).
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Mail suggestions and bug reports for these programs to
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bug-findutils@gnu.org.
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