findutils

Findutils supplies the basic file directory searching utilities of the GNU system. See documentation

Maintainers

• The Core Planners: [email protected]

Type of Package

Binary package

Use as Dependency

Binary packages can be set as runtime or build time dependencies. See Defining your dependencies for more information.

To add core/findutils as a dependency, you can add one of the following to your plan file.

Buildtime Dependency

pkg_build_deps=(core/findutils)

Runtime dependency

pkg_deps=(core/findutils)

Use as Tool

Installation

To install this plan, you should run the following commands to first install, and then link the binaries this plan creates.

hab pkg install core/findutils --binlink

will add the following binaries to the PATH:

• /bin/locate
• /bin/find
• /bin/xargs
• /bin/updatedb

$ hab pkg install core/findutils --binlink
» Installing core/findutils
☁ Determining latest version of core/findutils in the 'stable' channel
→ Found newer installed version (core/findutils/4.6.0/20200619072624) than remote version (core/findutils/4.6.0/20200306000932)
→ Using core/findutils/4.6.0/20200619072624
★ Install of core/findutils/4.6.0/20200619072624 complete with 0 new packages installed.
» Binlinking locate from core/findutils/4.6.0/20200619072624 into /bin
★ Binlinked locate from core/findutils/4.6.0/20200619072624 to /bin/locate
» Binlinking find from core/findutils/4.6.0/20200619072624 into /bin
★ Binlinked find from core/findutils/4.6.0/20200619072624 to /bin/find
» Binlinking xargs from core/findutils/4.6.0/20200619072624 into /bin
★ Binlinked xargs from core/findutils/4.6.0/20200619072624 to /bin/xargs
» Binlinking updatedb from core/findutils/4.6.0/20200619072624 into /bin
★ Binlinked updatedb from core/findutils/4.6.0/20200619072624 to /bin/updatedb

Using an example binary

You can now use the binary as normal. For example:

/bin/find --help or find --help

$ find --help
Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [-Olevel] [-D help|tree|search|stat|rates|opt|exec] [path...] [expression]

default path is the current directory; default expression is -print
expression may consist of: operators, options, tests, and actions:

operators (decreasing precedence; -and is implicit where no others are given):
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