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- @@@STARTPACK(find;GNU find utilities)
-
- <P>These are the GNU find utilities. Aside from a replacement version of the
- find command, this package also provides a replacement for xargs, and adds
- a very useful new command called locate. Locate will query a database of
- files and instantly allow you to locate a file on your system, rather than
- recursively searching through a number of file systems. Locate relies on the
- fact that the database is updated (via cron) on a regular enough basis to
- be useful. It is possible for locate to report the existence of files which
- have moved or been removed, if those files were removed between updates to
- the file database. These are very useful commands.</P>
-
- @@@OSR5DIST(osr5/fileutil/findutils/)
- @@@UW2DIST(uw2/fileutil/findutils/)
- @@@SOURCE(ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/)
- @@@ENDPACK
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