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.TH BFIND 1 bfind
.SH NAME
bfind - minimalitic find using breadth-first crawling
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BR bfind
[-0hsvx]
.RI [ directory ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.BR bfind
is a minimalistic alternative to
.BR find (1)
that is designed to be efficient that locating files.
To accomplish this,
.BR bfind
uses breadth-first crawling instead of depth-first crawling.
.PP
.BR 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.
.BR bfind
will never include all features of
.BR find (1)
because they are excessive and some other than makes
not since to have in the program and can be outright
dangerous.
.SH OPTIONS
The
.B bfind
utility conforms to the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1-2017,
.IR "Section 12.2" ,
.IR "Utility Syntax Guidelines" .
.PP
The following options are supported:
.TP
.BR \-0
Terminate lines with NUL rather than LF.
.TP
.BR \-h
Watch out for hardlinked directories.
.TP
.BR \-s
Visit symbolically linked directories, but
never visit the same directory twice.
.TP
.BR \-v
No files starting with a dot will be listed.
.TP
.BR \-x
Do not restrict crawling to one mount point.
.SH OPERANDS
The following operand is supported:
.TP
.I directory
The directory to crawl. If not specified, the current
working directory is crawled.
.SH STDIN
Not used.
.SH INPUT FILES
.I directory
may be of any type.
.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
No environment variables affects the execution of
.BR bfind .
.SH ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS
Default.
.SH STDOUT
The
.B bfind
utility prints all visited files to the standard output.
.SH STDERR
The standard error is only used for diagnostic messages.
.SH OUTPUT FILES
None.
.SH EXTENDED DESCRIPTION
None.
.SH EXIT STATUS
The
.B bfind
utility exits with one of the following statuses:
.TP
0
Successful.
.TP
1
On error, including missing permissions to crawl a directory.
.SH RATIONALE
While
.BR bfind
is not as fast as
.BR 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.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR find (1),
.BR grep (1)
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