10.59.2. Contents of Findutils
Short Descriptions
Was formerly used to produce locate databases | |
Was formerly used to produce locate databases; it is the ancestor of frcode. | |
Searches given directory trees for files matching the specified criteria | |
Is called by updatedb to compress the list of file names; it uses front-compression, reducing the database size by a factor of four to five. | |
Searches through a database of file names and reports the names that contain a given string or match a given pattern | |
Updates the locate database; it scans the entire file system (including other file systems that are currently mounted, unless told not to) and puts every file name it finds into the database | |
Can be used to apply a given command to a list of files |