find: Worked Examples

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1 10 Worked Examples
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1 The tools in the findutils package, and in particular 'find', have a
1 large number of options.  This means that quite often, there is more
1 than one way to do things.  Some of the options and facilities only
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1 improved ways of doing things.
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1    This chapter describes a number of useful tasks that are commonly
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· Deleting Files
· Copying A Subset of Files
· Updating A Timestamp File
· Finding the Shallowest Instance
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