(find.info)Worked Examples

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Enter node , (file) or (file)node

10 Worked Examples
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The tools in the findutils package, and in particular 'find', have a
large number of options.  This means that quite often, there is more
than one way to do things.  Some of the options and facilities only
exist for compatibility with other tools, and findutils provides
improved ways of doing things.

   This chapter describes a number of useful tasks that are commonly
performed, and compares the different ways of achieving them.

Deleting Files

Copying A Subset of Files

Updating A Timestamp File

Finding the Shallowest Instance