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bfs

Breadth-first search for your files

Website: https://tavianator.com/projects/bfs.html
Project: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs
Author: Tavian Barnes
Alternative to: find (See 5 others)
Language: C
This page last updated: 2026-03-15

bfs is a variant of the UNIX find command that operates breadth-first rather than depth-first. It is otherwise compatible with many versions of find

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