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)