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NAME
bfind - minimalistic find using breadth-first crawling
SYNOPSIS
bfind [-0hsvx] [directory]
DESCRIPTION
bfind is a minimalistic alternative to find(1) that is
designed to be efficient that locating files. To
accomplish this, bfind uses breadth-first crawling
instead of depth-first crawling.
bfind is only includes the bare minimum, a few options
for restricting the crawlspace and an option to output
visited files in a safe format rather than a human-friendly
format. bfind will never include all features of find(1)
because they are excessive and some other than makes not
since to have in the program and can be outright dangerous.
OPTIONS
-0
Terminate lines with NUL rather than LF.
-h
Watch out for hardlinked directories.
-s
Visit symbolically linked directories, but
never visit the same directory twice.
-v
No files starting with a dot will be listed.
-x
Do not restrict crawling to one mount point.
RATIONALE
While bfind is not as fast as find(1) for large
hierarchies, it will probably give your results faster
if you are looking for a file (rather than listing files),
because the file you are looking for is probably
near the directory you are searching from.
SEE ALSO
find(1), grep(1)
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