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gnome-find is an easy-to-use, but powerful, graphical version of the GNU "find"
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utility.
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It is not just a front-end which just forks and execs "find", nor is it a
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utility that reinvents the wheel by rewriting the "find" utility itself.
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The original source code to the GNU "find" utility (as found in findutils-4.1)
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was used, and a GUI component was integrated into it. Consequently, the actual
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file finding backend component is based on the very stable and mature code in
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GNU "find", while the GUI component provides a modern, easy-to-use, yet
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powerful, interface.
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By making it a truely graphical program, it avoids the common portability
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problems typically encountered by front-ends when they run on systems without
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GNU "find", as well as avoiding messy issues with forking a new process and
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communicating with it (e.g., pipes, temporary files, etc.).
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gnome-find features a default, no-nonsense dialog for use in most commonly
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specified searches. Additionally, a second, more detailed and advanced dialog
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is available to specify more powerful search parameters.
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WWW: http://gnome-find.sourceforge.net/
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