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OLDFIND(1)                                     General Commands Manual                                     OLDFIND(1)



NAME
       oldfind - search for files in a directory hierarchy

SYNOPSIS
       oldfind [-H] [-L] [-P] [-D debugopts] [-Olevel] [path...] [expression]

DESCRIPTION
       The oldfind and find programs are functionally identical.  The only difference between them is the implementa‐
       tion internals of how the filesystem is searched.  The oldfind binary has  a  recursive  implementation  while
       find  uses  fts(3).  The fts-based implementation will replace the recursive implementation but for the moment
       both implementations are installed.

       The implementation which is installed as find on this  system  is  the  fts-based  implementation,  since  the
       --without-fts option was not passed to the configure script when findutils was built.

SEE ALSO
       find(1), fts(3), Finding Files (on-line in Info, or printed).



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