This is find.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.3 from ../../findutils/doc/find.texi. START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY * Finding Files: (find). Listing and operating on files that match certain criteria. END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY This file documents the GNU utilities for finding files that match certain criteria and performing various operations on them. Copyright (C) 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved by the Foundation.  Indirect: find.info-1: 1099 find.info-2: 50786  Tag Table: (Indirect) Node: Top1099 Node: Introduction1917 Node: Scope3080 Node: Overview5000 Node: find Expressions6758 Node: Finding Files8378 Node: Name8844 Node: Base Name Patterns9468 Node: Full Name Patterns10006 Node: Fast Full Name Search10990 Node: Shell Pattern Matching13144 Node: Links14985 Node: Symbolic Links15415 Node: Hard Links16362 Node: Time17398 Node: Age Ranges17913 Node: Comparing Timestamps18853 Node: Size20132 Node: Type20945 Node: Owner21791 Node: Permissions22604 Node: Contents23289 Node: Directories24457 Node: Filesystems26936 Node: Combining Primaries With Operators28207 Node: Actions29508 Node: Print File Name30055 Node: Print File Information30659 Node: Escapes32891 Node: Format Directives33551 Node: Name Directives34249 Node: Ownership Directives34780 Node: Size Directives35205 Node: Location Directives35501 Node: Time Directives36052 Node: Time Formats36917 Node: Time Components37344 Node: Date Components37837 Node: Combined Time Formats38647 Node: Run Commands39131 Node: Single File39484 Node: Multiple Files40334 Node: Unsafe File Name Handling42143 Node: Safe File Name Handling43693 Node: Limiting Command Size44378 Node: Interspersing File Names46133 Node: Querying47193 Node: Adding Tests48107 Node: Common Tasks50370 Node: Viewing And Editing50786 Node: Archiving51297 Node: Cleaning Up52929 Node: Strange File Names54454 Node: Fixing Permissions56084 Node: Classifying Files56643 Node: Databases57361 Node: Database Locations57975 Node: Database Formats60280 Node: New Database Format60933 Node: Sample Database62495 Node: Old Database Format63134 Node: File Permissions65020 Node: Mode Structure65588 Node: Symbolic Modes67716 Node: Setting Permissions68713 Node: Copying Permissions71249 Node: Changing Special Permissions72050 Node: Conditional Executability73885 Node: Multiple Changes74502 Node: Umask and Protection76149 Node: Numeric Modes77238 Node: Reference79068 Node: Invoking find79366 Node: Invoking locate80413 Node: Invoking updatedb81436 Node: Invoking xargs82986 Node: Primary Index86059  End Tag Table