This is find.info, produced by makeinfo version 6.7 from find.texi.

This manual documents version 4.8.0 of the GNU utilities for finding
files that match certain criteria and performing various operations on
them.

   Copyright (C) 1994-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

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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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Node: Top1201
Node: Introduction2897
Node: Scope5800
Node: Overview7733
Node: Finding Files9572
Node: find Expressions10058
Node: Name12069
Node: Base Name Patterns12722
Ref: Base Name Patterns-Footnote-114041
Node: Full Name Patterns14253
Node: Fast Full Name Search18256
Node: Shell Pattern Matching21305
Node: Links23394
Node: Symbolic Links23829
Node: Hard Links28885
Node: Time32005
Node: Age Ranges32977
Node: Comparing Timestamps34661
Node: Size37902
Node: Type40098
Node: Owner41976
Node: Mode Bits42795
Node: Contents48351
Node: Directories49522
Node: Filesystems55716
Node: Combining Primaries With Operators57075
Node: Actions58693
Node: Print File Name59253
Node: Print File Information60271
Node: Escapes64270
Node: Format Directives65011
Node: Name Directives66257
Node: Ownership Directives67751
Node: Size Directives68755
Node: Location Directives70124
Node: Time Directives71465
Node: Other Directives72363
Node: Reserved and Unknown Directives72638
Node: Time Formats73506
Node: Time Components74058
Node: Date Components75017
Node: Combined Time Formats75829
Node: Formatting Flags76798
Node: Run Commands77408
Node: Single File77766
Node: Multiple Files80433
Node: Unsafe File Name Handling85219
Node: Safe File Name Handling86932
Node: Unusual Characters in File Names88546
Node: Limiting Command Size91708
Node: Controlling Parallelism94144
Node: Interspersing File Names99996
Node: Querying102451
Node: Delete Files104708
Node: Adding Tests105652
Node: Databases108291
Node: Database Locations109008
Node: Database Formats110455
Node: LOCATE02 Database Format111548
Node: Sample LOCATE02 Database113240
Node: slocate Database Format113924
Node: Old Database Format114932
Node: Newline Handling117903
Node: File Permissions118850
Node: Mode Structure119428
Node: Symbolic Modes122563
Node: Setting Permissions123660
Node: Copying Permissions126201
Node: Changing Special Permissions127014
Node: Conditional Executability128558
Node: Multiple Changes129090
Node: Umask and Protection130747
Node: Numeric Modes131845
Node: Date input formats133536
Node: General date syntax135924
Node: Calendar date items138902
Node: Time of day items140808
Node: Time zone items143005
Node: Combined date and time of day items144352
Node: Day of week items145208
Node: Relative items in date strings146217
Node: Pure numbers in date strings149020
Node: Seconds since the Epoch150002
Node: Specifying time zone rules151689
Node: Authors of parse_datetime154067
Ref: Authors of get_date154247
Node: Configuration155210
Node: Leaf Optimisation155926
Node: d_type Optimisation157038
Node: Reference157328
Node: Invoking find157673
Node: Filesystem Traversal Options159155
Node: Warning Messages160246
Node: Optimisation Options162212
Node: Debug Options164157
Node: Find Expressions165273
Node: Invoking locate165639
Node: Invoking updatedb171826
Node: Invoking xargs174864
Node: xargs options175614
Node: Conflicting xargs options181219
Node: Invoking the shell from xargs182247
Node: Regular Expressions186244
Node: findutils-default regular expression syntax187836
Node: emacs regular expression syntax190341
Node: gnu-awk regular expression syntax192879
Node: grep regular expression syntax195343
Node: posix-awk regular expression syntax197996
Node: awk regular expression syntax200287
Node: posix-basic regular expression syntax202153
Node: posix-egrep regular expression syntax204784
Node: egrep regular expression syntax207113
Node: posix-extended regular expression syntax207410
Node: Environment Variables209876
Node: Common Tasks212844
Node: Viewing And Editing213269
Node: Archiving215188
Node: Cleaning Up216821
Node: Strange File Names219709
Node: Fixing Permissions221358
Node: Classifying Files221922
Node: Worked Examples222640
Node: Deleting Files223345
Node: Copying A Subset of Files236373
Node: Updating A Timestamp File238392
Node: Finding the Shallowest Instance244380
Node: Security Considerations246316
Node: Levels of Risk247883
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Node: Security Considerations for find250860
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Node: Problems with -exec and filenames253257
Node: Changing the Current Working Directory254891
Node: O_NOFOLLOW256662
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Node: Systems without O_NOFOLLOW258828
Ref: Systems without O_NOFOLLOW-Footnote-1260977
Node: Race Conditions with -exec261039
Node: Race Conditions with -print and -print0263956
Node: Security Considerations for xargs264885
Node: Security Considerations for locate267387
Node: Security Summary268133
Node: Further Reading on Security268928
Node: Error Messages270111
Node: Error Messages From find271140
Node: Error Messages From xargs276263
Node: Error Messages From locate278966
Node: Error Messages From updatedb280198
Node: GNU Free Documentation License280605
Node: Primary Index306962

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