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10 Worked Examples

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.