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by Kevin Dalley
Import upstream version 4.1.7 |
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This package contains the GNU find, xargs, and locate programs. find |
1.1.2
by Andreas Metzler
Import upstream version 4.2.22 |
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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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by Kevin Dalley
Import upstream version 4.1.7 |
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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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1.1.2
by Andreas Metzler
Import upstream version 4.2.22 |
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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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by Kevin Dalley
Import upstream version 4.1.7 |
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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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1.1.2
by Andreas Metzler
Import upstream version 4.2.22 |
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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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1.2.1
by Andreas Metzler
Import upstream version 4.4.0 |
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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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1.1.2
by Andreas Metzler
Import upstream version 4.2.22 |
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by Kevin Dalley
Import upstream version 4.1.7 |
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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 tests |
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that don't require a stat before tests that do, in hopes that the |
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latter will be skipped because of an OR or AND. (But it only does |
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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. |