| Developer(s) | GNU Project |
|---|---|
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Type | Miscellaneous Utilities |
| License | GNU GPL |
| Website | http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/ |
Findutils is a GNU package which offers basic file searching utilities to search the systems directories of GNU and Unix based computers. It contains implementations of the tools find, locate, updatedb, and xargs. However, locate and updatedb has been split off into a separate package in latest versions in various Linux distributions.