Utilities

• find → locating files and processing them
• tar, gzip etc. → packaging collections of files
• make → conditional actions

find

• Usage: find [pathnames] [conditions]

File Packaging

• Deep file hierarchies
• Large number of tiny files
• tar → collect a file hierarchy into a single file
• gzip → compress a file
• Applications → backup, file sharing, reduce disc utilization

Possibilities

• tar, zip