doc/find.info

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   4 INFO-DIR-SECTION Basics
   5 START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
   6 * Finding files: (find).        Operating on files matching certain criteria.
   7 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
   8
   9 INFO-DIR-SECTION Individual utilities
  10 START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
  11 * find: (find)Invoking find.                    Finding and acting on files.
  12 * locate: (find)Invoking locate.                Finding files in a database.
  13 * updatedb: (find)Invoking updatedb.            Building the locate database.
  14 * xargs: (find)Invoking xargs.                  Operating on many files.
  15 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
  16
  17    This file documents the GNU utilities for finding files that match
  18 certain criteria and performing various operations on them.
  19
  20    Copyright (C) 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006,
  21 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  22
  23    Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
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  26 Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
  27 Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU
  28 Free Documentation License".
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