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INFO-DIR-SECTION Basics
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* Finding files: (find).        Operating on files matching certain criteria.
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INFO-DIR-SECTION Individual utilities
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* find: (find)Invoking find.                    Finding and acting on files.
* locate: (find)Invoking locate.                Finding files in a database.
* updatedb: (find)Invoking updatedb.            Building the locate database.
* xargs: (find)Invoking xargs.                  Operating on many files.
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   This file documents the GNU utilities for finding files that match
certain criteria and performing various operations on them.

   Copyright (C) 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006,
2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

   Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
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Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU
Free Documentation License".


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Ref: Base Name Patterns-Footnote-114203
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Node: Fast Full Name Search18418
Node: Shell Pattern Matching21467
Node: Links23557
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Node: Time31050
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Node: Archiving210377
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Node: Error Messages From updatedb276799
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Node: Primary Index302380

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