#findutils

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Photo by Matthias Speicher on Unsplash A group of us have been working on porting the latest Open Source tools to z/OS. I gave an intro to the z/OS Open Source Community a few months ago, and now I’d like to provide a simple example of how useful these tools can be. A very common problem is to perform a search and replace across a set of files in a directory tree. Maybe your manager said the…

The formula for findutils was recently updated to version 4.4.2.

To install findutils on your Mac, open your Terminal application and run the following commands;

brew update brew install findutils

 The updated formula is as follows:

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require 'formula' class Findutils < Formula url 'http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/findutils/findutils-4.4.2.tar.gz' homepage 'http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/' md5 '351cc4adb07d54877fa15f75fb77d39f' def options [['--default-names', "Do NOT prepend 'g' to the binary; will override system utils."]] end def install args = ["--prefix=#{prefix}", "--disable-debug", "--disable-dependency-tracking"] args << "--program-prefix=g" unless ARGV.include? '--default-names' system "./configure", *args system "make install" end end

Currently findutils has no dependencies in homebrew.