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diff --git a/docs/BUILDING.md b/docs/BUILDING.md
index 5219160..cb33c51 100644
--- a/docs/BUILDING.md
+++ b/docs/BUILDING.md
@@ -1,103 +1,157 @@
Building `bfs`
==============
-Compiling
----------
-
-`bfs` uses [GNU Make](https://www.gnu.org/software/make/) as its build system.
A simple invocation of
+ $ ./configure
$ make
-should build `bfs` successfully, with no additional steps necessary.
-As usual with `make`, you can run a [parallel build](https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Parallel.html) with `-j`.
-For example, to use all your cores, run `make -j$(nproc)`.
+should build `bfs` successfully.
-### Targets
-| Command | Description |
-|------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------|
-| `make` | Builds just the `bfs` binary |
-| `make all` | Builds everything, including the tests (but doesn't run them) |
-| `make check` | Builds everything, and runs the tests |
-| `make install` | Installs `bfs` (with man page, shell completions, etc.) |
-| `make uninstall` | Uninstalls `bfs` |
-
-### Flag-like targets
-
-The build system provides a few shorthand targets for handy configurations:
-
-| Command | Description |
-|----------------|-------------------------------------------------------------|
-| `make release` | Build `bfs` with optimizations, LTO, and without assertions |
-| `make asan` | Enable [AddressSanitizer] |
-| `make lsan` | Enable [LeakSanitizer] |
-| `make msan` | Enable [MemorySanitizer] |
-| `make tsan` | Enable [ThreadSanitizer] |
-| `make ubsan` | Enable [UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer] |
-| `make gcov` | Enable [code coverage] |
-
-[AddressSanitizer]: https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/AddressSanitizer
-[LeakSanitizer]: https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/AddressSanitizerLeakSanitizer#stand-alone-mode
-[MemorySanitizer]: https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/MemorySanitizer
-[ThreadSanitizer]: https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/ThreadSanitizerCppManual
-[UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer]: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer.html
-[code coverage]: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Gcov.html
-
-You can combine multiple flags and other targets (e.g. `make asan ubsan check`), but not all of them will work together.
-
-### Flags
-
-Other flags are controlled with `make` variables and/or environment variables.
-Here are some of the common ones; check the [`Makefile`](/Makefile) for more.
-
-| Flag | Description |
-|----------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|
-| `CC` | The C compiler to use, e.g. `make CC=clang` |
-| `CFLAGS`<br>`EXTRA_CFLAGS` | Override/add to the default compiler flags |
-| `LDFLAGS`<br>`EXTRA_LDFLAGS` | Override/add to the linker flags |
-| `WITH_ACL`<br>`WITH_ATTR`<br>... | Enable/disable [optional dependencies] |
-| `TEST_FLAGS` | `tests.sh` flags for `make check` |
-| `BUILDDIR` | The build output directory (default: `.`) |
-| `DESTDIR` | The root directory for `make install` |
-| `PREFIX` | The installation prefix (default: `/usr`) |
-| `MANDIR` | The man page installation directory |
-
-[optional dependencies]: #dependencies
+Configuration
+-------------
+
+```console
+$ ./configure --help
+Usage:
+
+ $ ./configure [--enable-*|--disable-*] [CC=...] [CFLAGS=...] [...]
+ $ make
+
+...
+```
+
+### Variables
+
+Variables set in the environment or on the command line will be picked up:
+These variables specify binaries to run during the configuration and build process:
+
+<pre>
+<b>MAKE</b>=<i>make</i>
+ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_(software)">make</a> implementation
+<b>CC</b>=<i>cc</i>
+ C compiler
+<b>INSTALL</b>=<i>install</i>
+ Copy files during <i>make install</i>
+<b>MKDIR</b>="<i>mkdir -p</i>"
+ Create directories
+<b>PKG_CONFIG</b>=<i>pkg-config</i>
+ Detect external libraries and required build flags
+<b>RM</b>="<i>rm -f</i>"
+ Delete files
+</pre>
+
+These flags will be used by the build process:
+
+<pre>
+<b>CPPFLAGS</b>="<i>-I... -D...</i>"
+<b>CFLAGS</b>="<i>-W... -f...</i>"
+<b>LDFLAGS</b>="<i>-L... -Wl,...</i>"
+ Preprocessor/compiler/linker flags
+
+<b>LDLIBS</b>="<i>-l... -l...</i>"
+ Dynamic libraries to link
+
+<b>EXTRA_</b>{<b>CPPFLAGS</b>,<b>CFLAGS</b>,<b>LDFLAGS</b>,<b>LDLIBS</b>}="<i>...</i>"
+ Adds to the default flags, instead of replacing them
+</pre>
+
+### Build profiles
+
+The default flags result in a plain debug build.
+Other build profiles can be enabled:
+
+<pre>
+--enable-release
+ Enable optimizations, disable assertions
+
+--enable-<a href="https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/AddressSanitizer">asan</a>
+--enable-<a href="https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/AddressSanitizerLeakSanitizer#stand-alone-mode">lsan</a>
+--enable-<a href="https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/MemorySanitizer">msan</a>
+--enable-<a href="https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/ThreadSanitizerCppManual">tsan</a>
+--enable-<a href="https://clang.llvm.org/docs/UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer.html">ubsan</a>
+ Enable sanitizers
+
+--enable-<a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/gcov/introduction-to-gcov.html">gcov</a>
+ Enable code coverage instrumentation
+</pre>
+
+You can combine multiple profiles (e.g. `./configure --enable-asan --enable-ubsan`), but not all of them will work together.
### Dependencies
`bfs` depends on some system libraries for some of its features.
-These dependencies are optional, and can be turned off at build time if necessary by setting the appropriate variable to the empty string (e.g. `make WITH_ONIGURUMA=`).
+External dependencies are auto-detected by default, but you can `--enable` or `--disable` them manually:
-| Dependency | Platforms | `make` flag |
-|-------------|------------|------------------|
-| [acl] | Linux only | `WITH_ACL` |
-| [attr] | Linux only | `WITH_ATTR` |
-| [libcap] | Linux only | `WITH_LIBCAP` |
-| [Oniguruma] | All | `WITH_ONIGURUMA` |
+<pre>
+--enable-<a href="https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/acl">libacl</a> --disable-libacl
+--enable-<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/fullycapable/">libcap</a> --disable-libcap
+--enable-<a href="https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux">libselinux</a> --disable-libselinux
+--enable-<a href="https://github.com/axboe/liburing">liburing</a> --disable-liburing
+--enable-<a href="https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma">oniguruma</a> --disable-oniguruma
+</pre>
-[acl]: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/acl
-[attr]: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/attr
-[libcap]: https://sites.google.com/site/fullycapable/
-[Oniguruma]: https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma
+[`pkg-config`] is used, if available, to detect these libraries and any additional build flags they may require.
+If this is undesireable, disable it by setting `PKG_CONFIG` to the empty string (`./configure PKG_CONFIG=""`).
-### Dependency tracking
+[`pkg-config`]: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/
-The build system automatically tracks header dependencies with the `-M` family of compiler options (see `DEPFLAGS` in the [`Makefile`](/Makefile)).
-So if you edit a header file, `make` will rebuild the necessary object files ensuring they don't go out of sync.
+### Out-of-tree builds
-We go one step further than most build systems by tracking the flags that were used for the previous compilation.
-That means you can change configurations without having to `make clean`.
-For example,
+You can set up an out-of-tree build by running the `configure` script from another directory, for example:
+ $ mkdir out
+ $ cd out
+ $ ../configure
$ make
- $ make release
-will build the project in debug mode and then rebuild it in release mode.
-A side effect of this may be surprising: `make check` by itself will rebuild the project in the default configuration.
-To test a different configuration, you'll have to repeat it (e.g. `make release check`).
+Building
+--------
+
+### Targets
+
+The [`Makefile`](/Makefile) supports several different build targets:
+
+<pre>
+make
+ The default target; builds just the <i>bfs</i> binary
+make <b>all</b>
+ Builds everything, including the tests (but doesn't run them)
+
+make <b>check</b>
+ Builds everything, and runs all tests
+make <b>unit-tests</b>
+ Builds and runs the unit tests
+make <b>integration-tests</b>
+ Builds and runs the integration tests
+make <b>distcheck</b>
+ Builds and runs the tests in multiple different configurations
+
+make <b>install</b>
+ Installs bfs globally
+make <b>uninstall</b>
+ Uninstalls bfs
+
+make <b>clean</b>
+ Deletes all built files
+make <b>distclean</b>
+ Also deletes files generated by ./configure
+</pre>
+
+
+Troubleshooting
+---------------
+
+If the build fails or behaves unexpectedly, start by enabling verbose mode:
+
+ $ ./configure V=1
+ $ make V=1
+
+This will print the generated configuration and the exact commands that are executed.
+
+You can also check the file `gen/config.log`, which contains any errors from commands run during the configuration phase.
Testing
diff --git a/docs/CHANGELOG.md b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
index ff1c1f7..62b6480 100644
--- a/docs/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,274 @@
+3.*
+===
+
+3.2
+---
+
+**May 2, 2024**
+
+### New features
+
+- New `-limit N` action that quits immediately after `N` results
+
+- Implemented `-context` (from GNU find) for matching SELinux contexts ([#27](https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/issues/27))
+
+- Implemented `-printf %Z` for printing SELinux contexts
+
+### Changes
+
+- The build system has been rewritten, and there is now a configure step:
+
+ $ ./configure
+ $ make
+
+ See `./configure --help` or [docs/BUILDING.md](/docs/BUILDING.md) for more details.
+
+- Improved platform support
+ - Implemented `-acl` on Solaris/Illumos
+ - Implemented `-xattr` on DragonFly BSD
+
+### Bug fixes
+
+- Fixed some rarely-used code paths that clean up after allocation failures
+
+3.1.3
+-----
+
+**March 6, 2024**
+
+### Bug fixes
+
+- On Linux, the `io_uring` feature probing introduced in `bfs` 3.1.2 only applied to one thread, causing all other threads to avoid using io_uring entirely.
+ The probe results are now copied to all threads correctly.
+ ([`f64f76b`](https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/commit/f64f76b55400b71e8576ed7e4a377eb5ef9576aa))
+
+
+3.1.2
+-----
+
+**February 29, 2024**
+
+### Bug fixes
+
+- On Linux, we now check for supported `io_uring` operations before using them, which should fix `bfs` on 5.X series kernels that support `io_uring` but not all of `openat()`/`close()`/`statx()` ([`8bc72d6`](https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/commit/8bc72d6c20c5e38783c4956c4d9fde9b3ee9140c))
+
+- Fixed a test failure triggered by certain filesystem types for `/tmp` ([#131](https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/issues/131))
+
+- Fixed parsing and interpretation of timezone offsets for explicit reference times used in `-*since` and `-newerXt` ([`a9f3cde`](https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/commit/a9f3cde30426b546ba6e3172e1a7951213a72049))
+
+- Fixed the build on m68k ([`c749c11`](https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/commit/c749c11b04444ca40941dd2ddc5802faed148f6a))
+
+
+3.1.1
+-----
+
+**February 16, 2024**
+
+### Changes
+
+- Performance and scalability improvements
+
+- The file count in `bfs -status` now has a thousands separator
+
+
+3.1
+---
+
+**February 6, 2024**
+
+### New features
+
+- On Linux, `bfs` now uses [io_uring](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io_uring) for async I/O
+
+- On all platforms, `bfs` can now perform `stat()` calls in parallel, accelerating queries like `-links`, `-newer`, and `-size`, as well as colorized output
+
+- On FreeBSD, `-type w` now works to find whiteouts like the system `find`
+
+### Changes
+
+- Improved `bfs -j2` performance ([`b2ab7a1`](https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/commit/b2ab7a151fca517f4879e76e626ec85ad3de97c7))
+
+- Optimized `-exec` by using `posix_spawn()` when possible, which can avoid the overhead of `fork()` ([`95fbde1`](https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/commit/95fbde17a66377b6fbe7ff1f014301dbbf09270d))
+
+- `-execdir` and `-okdir` are now rejected if `$PATH` contains a relative path, matching the behaviour of GNU find ([`163baf1`](https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/commit/163baf1c9af13be0ce705b133e41e0c3d6427398))
+
+- Leading whitespace is no longer accepted in integer command line arguments like `-links ' 1'` ([`e0d7dc5`](https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/commit/e0d7dc5dfd7bdaa62b6bc18e9c1cce00bbe08577))
+
+### Bug fixes
+
+- `-quit` and `-exit` could be ignored in the iterative deepening modes (`-S {ids,eds}`).
+ This is now fixed ([`670ebd9`](https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/commit/670ebd97fb431e830b1500b2e7e8013b121fb2c5)).
+ The bug was introduced in version 3.0.3 (commit [`5f16169`]).
+
+- Fixed two possible errors in sort mode (`-s`):
+ - Too many open files ([`710c083`](https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/commit/710c083ff02eb1cc5b8daa6778784f3d1cd3c08d))
+ - Out of memory ([`76ffc8d`](https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/commit/76ffc8d30cb1160d55d855d8ac630a2b9075fbcf))
+
+- Fixed handling of FreeBSD union mounts ([`3ac3bee`](https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/commit/3ac3bee7b0d9c9be693415206efa664bf4a7d4a7))
+
+- Fixed `NO_COLOR` handling when it's set to the empty string ([`79aee58`](https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/commit/79aee58a4621d01c4b1e98c332775f3b87213ddb))
+
+- Fixed some portability issues:
+ - [OpenBSD](https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/compare/ee200c07643801c8b53e5b80df704ecbf77a884e...79f1521b0e628be72bed3a648f0ae90b62fc69b8)
+ - [NetBSD](https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/compare/683f2c41c72efcb82ce866e3dcc311ac9bd8b66d...6435684a7d515e18247ae1b3dd9ec8681fee22d0)
+ - [DragonFly BSD](https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/compare/08867473e75e8e20ca76c7fb181204839e28b271...45fb1d952c3b262278a3b22e9c7d60cca19a5407)
+ - [Illumos](https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/compare/4010140cb748cc4f7f57b0a3d514485796c665ce...ae94cdc00136685abe61d55e1e357caaa636d785)
+
+
+3.0.4
+-----
+
+**October 12, 2023**
+
+### Bug fixes
+
+- Fixed a segfault when reporting errors under musl ([`d40eb87`])
+
+[`d40eb87`]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/commit/d40eb87cc00f50a5debb8899eacb7fcf1065badf
+
+
+3.0.3
+-----
+
+**October 12, 2023**
+
+### Changes
+
+- Iterative deepening modes (`-S {ids,eds}`) were optimized by delaying teardown until the very end ([`5f16169`])
+
+- Parallel depth-first search (`-S dfs`) was optimized to avoid enqueueing every file separately ([`2572273`])
+
+### Bug fixes
+
+- Iterative deepening modes (`-S {ids,eds}`) were performing iterative *breadth*-first searches since `bfs` 3.0, negating any advantages they may have had over normal breadth-first search.
+ They now do iterative *depth*-first searches as expected.
+ ([`a029d95`])
+
+- Fixed a linked-list corruption that could lead to an infinite loop on macOS and other non-Linux, non-FreeBSD platforms ([`773f4a4`])
+
+[`5f16169`]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/commit/5f1616912ba3a7a23ce6bce02df3791b73da38ab
+[`2572273`]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/commit/257227326fe60fe70e80433fd34d1ebcb2f9f623
+[`a029d95`]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/commit/a029d95b5736a74879f32089514a5a6b63d6efbc
+[`773f4a4`]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/commit/773f4a446f03da62d88e6d17be49fdc0a3e38465
+
+
+3.0.2
+-----
+
+**September 6, 2023**
+
+### Changes
+
+- `-files0-from` now allows an empty set of paths to be given, matching GNU findutils 4.9.0
+
+- Reduced memory consumption in multi-threaded searches
+
+- Many man page updates
+
+### Bug fixes
+
+- Fixed an out-of-bounds memory read that could occur when escaping a string containing an incomplete multi-byte character
+
+
+3.0.1
+-----
+
+**July 18, 2023**
+
+### Bug fixes
+
+- Traversal fixes that mostly affect large directory trees ([#107])
+
+ - `bfs` could encounter `EMFILE`, close a file, and retry many times, particularly with `-j1`
+
+ - Breadth-first search could become highly unbalanced, negating many of the benefits of `bfs`
+
+ - On non-{Linux,FreeBSD} plaforms, directories could stay open longer than necessary, consuming extra memory
+
+[#107]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/pull/107
+
+
+3.0
+---
+
+**July 13, 2023**
+
+### New features
+
+- `bfs` now reads directories asynchronously and in parallel ([#101]).
+ Performance is significantly improved as a result.
+ Parallelism is controlled by the new `-j` flag, e.g. `-j1`, `-j2`, etc.
+
+[#101]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/issues/101
+
+### Changes
+
+- `bfs` now uses the [C17] standard version, up from C11
+
+- Due to [#101], `bfs` now requires some additional C and POSIX features:
+ - [Standard C atomics] (`<stdatomic.h>`)
+ - [POSIX threads] (`<pthread.h>`)
+
+- `$LS_COLORS` extensions written in different cases (e.g. `*.jpg=35:*.JPG=01;35`) are now matched case-sensitively, to match the new behaviour of GNU ls since coreutils version 9.2
+
+- Added a warning/error if `$LS_COLORS` can't be parsed, depending on whether `-color` is requested explicitly
+
+- Filenames with control characters are now escaped when printing with `-color`
+
+- Build flags like `WITH_ONIGURUMA` have been renamed to `USE_ONIGURUMA`
+
+[C17]: https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/17
+[Standard C atomics]: https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/atomic
+[POSIX threads]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/idx/threads.html
+
+### Bug fixes
+
+- Fixed handling of the "normal text" color (`no` in `$LS_COLORS`) to match GNU ls
+
+
2.*
===
+2.6.3
+-----
+
+**January 31, 2023**
+
+- Fixed running the tests as root on Linux [`8b24de3`]
+
+- Fixed some tests on Android [`2724dfb`] [`0a5a80c`]
+
+- Stopped relying on non-POSIX touch(1) features in the tests.
+ This should fix the tests on at least OpenBSD.
+ [`2d5edb3`]
+
+- User/group caches are now filled lazily instead of eagerly [`b41dca5`]
+
+- More caches and I/O streams are flushed before -exec/-ok [`f98a1c4`]
+
+- Fixed various memory safety issues found by fuzzing \
+ [`712b137`] [`5ce883d`] [`da02def`] [`c55e855`]
+
+- Fixed a test failure on certain macOS versions [`8b24de3`]
+
+- Mitigated a race condition when determining filesystem types ([#97])
+
+- Lots of refactoring and optimization
+
+[`8b24de3`]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/commit/8b24de3882ff5a3e33b82ab20bb4eadf134cf559
+[`2724dfb`]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/commit/2724dfbd17552f892a0d8b39b96cbe9e49d66fdb
+[`0a5a80c`]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/commit/0a5a80c98cc7e5d8735b615fa197a6cff2bb08cc
+[`2d5edb3`]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/commit/2d5edb37b924715b4fbee4d917ac334c773fca61
+[`b41dca5`]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/commit/b41dca52762c5188638236ae81b9f4597bb29ac9
+[`f98a1c4`]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/commit/f98a1c4a1cf61ff7d6483388ca1fac365fb0b31b
+[`712b137`]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/commit/712b13756a09014ef730c8f9b96da4dc2f09b762
+[`5ce883d`]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/commit/5ce883daaafc69f83b01dac5db0647e9662a6e87
+[`da02def`]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/commit/da02defb91c3a1bda0ea7e653d81f997f1c8884a
+[`c55e855`]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/commit/c55e85580df10c5afdc6fc0710e756a456aa8e93
+[`8b24de3`]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/commit/8b24de3882ff5a3e33b82ab20bb4eadf134cf559
+[#97]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/issues/97
+
+
2.6.2
-----
diff --git a/docs/HACKING.md b/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md
index c9bbe14..099157d 100644
--- a/docs/HACKING.md
+++ b/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-Hacking on `bfs`
-================
+Contributing to `bfs`
+=====================
License
-------
@@ -7,11 +7,17 @@ License
`bfs` is licensed under the [Zero-Clause BSD License](https://opensource.org/licenses/0BSD), a maximally permissive license.
Contributions must use the same license.
+Individual files contain the following tag instead of the full license text:
+
+ SPDX-License-Identifier: 0BSD
+
+This enables machine processing of license information based on the SPDX License Identifiers that are available here: https://spdx.org/licenses/
+
Implementation
--------------
-`bfs` is written in [C](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)), specifically [C11](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C11_(C_standard_revision)).
+`bfs` is written in [C](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)), specifically [C17](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C17_(C_standard_revision)).
You can get a feel for the coding style by skimming the source code.
[`main.c`](/src/main.c) contains an overview of the rest of source files.
A quick summary:
diff --git a/docs/RELATED.md b/docs/RELATED.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cf52b70
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/RELATED.md
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+# Related utilities
+
+There are many tools that can be used to find files.
+This is a catalogue of some of the most important/interesting ones.
+
+## `find`-compatible
+
+### System `find` implementations
+
+These `find` implementations are commonly installed as the system `find` utility in UNIX-like operating systems:
+
+- [GNU findutils](https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/) ([manual](https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_node/find_html/index.html), [source](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git))
+- BSD `find`
+ - FreeBSD `find` ([manual](https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?find(1)), [source](https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/usr.bin/find))
+ - OpenBSD `find` ([manual](https://man.openbsd.org/find.1), [source](https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/usr.bin/find/))
+ - NetBSD `find` ([manual](https://man.netbsd.org/find.1), [source](http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/find/))
+- macOS `find` ([manual](https://ss64.com/osx/find.html), [source](https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/shell_cmds/tree/main/find))
+- Solaris `find`
+ - [Illumos](https://illumos.org/) `find` ([manual](https://illumos.org/man/1/find), [source](https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/master/usr/src/cmd/find/find.c))
+
+### Alternative `find` implementations
+
+These are not usually installed as the system `find`, but are designed to be `find`-compatible
+
+- [`bfs`](https://tavianator.com/projects/bfs.html) ([manual](https://man.archlinux.org/man/bfs.1), [source](https://github.com/tavianator/bfs))
+- [schilytools](https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools) `sfind` ([source](https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools/src/branch/master/sfind))
+- [BusyBox](https://busybox.net/) `find` ([manual](https://busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html#find), [source](https://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/findutils/find.c))
+- [ToyBox](http://landley.net/toybox/) `find` ([manual](http://landley.net/toybox/help.html#find), [source](https://github.com/landley/toybox/blob/master/toys/posix/find.c))
+- uutils `find` ([source](https://github.com/uutils/findutils))
+
+## `find` alternatives
+
+These utilities are not `find`-compatible, but serve a similar purpose:
+
+- [`fd`](https://github.com/sharkdp/fd): A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
+- `locate`
+ - [GNU `locate`](https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/locate)
+ - [`mlocate`](https://pagure.io/mlocate) ([manual](), [source](https://pagure.io/mlocate/tree/master))
+ - [`plocate`](https://plocate.sesse.net/) ([manual](https://plocate.sesse.net/plocate.1.html), [source](https://git.sesse.net/?p=plocate))
+- [`walk`](https://github.com/google/walk): Plan 9 style utilities to replace find(1)
+- [fselect](https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect): Find files with SQL-like queries
+- [rawhide](https://github.com/raforg/rawhide): find files using pretty C expressions
diff --git a/docs/USAGE.md b/docs/USAGE.md
index 0e45b34..70f8475 100644
--- a/docs/USAGE.md
+++ b/docs/USAGE.md
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ $ bfs
./completions/bfs.zsh
./docs/BUILDING.md
./docs/CHANGELOG.md
-./docs/HACKING.md
+./docs/CONTRIBUTING.md
./docs/USAGE.md
./docs/bfs.1
...
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ $ bfs -name '*.md'
./README.md
./docs/BUILDING.md
./docs/CHANGELOG.md
-./docs/HACKING.md
+./docs/CONTRIBUTING.md
./docs/USAGE.md
```
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ When you put multiple expressions next to each other, both of them must match:
```console
$ bfs -name '*.md' -name '*ING*'
./docs/BUILDING.md
-./docs/HACKING.md
+./docs/CONTRIBUTING.md
```
This works because the expressions are implicitly combined with *logical and*.
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ $ bfs -name '*.md' -or -name 'bfs.*'
./completions/bfs.zsh
./docs/BUILDING.md
./docs/CHANGELOG.md
-./docs/HACKING.md
+./docs/CONTRIBUTING.md
./docs/USAGE.md
./docs/bfs.1
```
@@ -130,6 +130,40 @@ Unlike `-prune`, `-exclude` even works in combination with `-depth`/`-delete`.
---
+### `-limit`
+
+The `-limit N` action makes `bfs` quit once it gets evaluated `N` times.
+Placing it after an action like `-print` limits the number of results that get printed, for example:
+
+```console
+$ bfs -s -type f -name '*.txt'
+./1.txt
+./2.txt
+./3.txt
+./4.txt
+$ bfs -s -type f -name '*.txt' -print -limit 2
+./1.txt
+./2.txt
+```
+
+This is similar to
+
+```console
+$ bfs -s -type f -name '*.txt' | head -n2
+```
+
+but more powerful because you can apply separate limits to different expressions:
+
+```console
+$ bfs \( -name '*.txt' -print -limit 3 -o -name '*.log' -print -limit 4 \) -limit 5
+[At most 3 .txt files, at most 4 .log files, and at most 5 in total]
+```
+
+and more efficient because it will quit immediately.
+When piping to `head`, `bfs` will only quit *after* it tries to output too many results.
+
+---
+
### `-hidden`/`-nohidden`
`-hidden` matches "hidden" files (dotfiles).
diff --git a/docs/bfs.1 b/docs/bfs.1
index 53a9831..54166ab 100644
--- a/docs/bfs.1
+++ b/docs/bfs.1
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ Follow all symbolic links.
Never follow symbolic links (the default).
.TP
.B \-E
-Use extended regular expressions (same as \fB\-regextype posix-extended\fR).
+Use extended regular expressions (same as \fB\-regextype \fIposix-extended\fR).
.TP
.B \-X
Filter out files with
@@ -171,12 +171,18 @@ consumes too much memory.
.TP
.I eds
Exponential deepening search.
-A compromise between breadth- and depth-first search, which searches exponentially increasing depth ranges (e.g 0-1, 1-2, 2-4, 4-8, etc.).
+A compromise between breadth- and depth-first search, which searches exponentially increasing depth ranges (e.g. 0-1, 1-2, 2-4, 4-8, etc.).
Provides many of the benefits of breadth-first search with depth-first's reduced memory consumption.
Typically far faster than
.B \-S
.IR ids .
.RE
+.TP
+\fB\-j\fIN\fR
+Search with
+.I N
+threads in parallel (default: number of CPUs, up to
+.IR 8 ).
.SH OPERATORS
.TP
\fB( \fIexpression \fB)\fR
@@ -245,6 +251,20 @@ or
.B \-mindepth
for example.
Exclusions are always applied before other expressions, so it may be least confusing to put them first on the command line.
+.PP
+.B \-help
+.br
+.B \-\-help
+.RS
+Print usage information, and exit immediately (without parsing the rest of the command line or processing any files).
+.RE
+.PP
+.B \-version
+.br
+.B \-\-version
+.RS
+Print version information, and exit immediately.
+.RE
.SH OPTIONS
.PP
.B \-color
@@ -309,11 +329,40 @@ Ignored; for compatibility with GNU find.
\fB\-regextype \fITYPE\fR
Use
.IR TYPE -flavored
-regexes (default:
-.IR posix-basic ;
-see
-.B \-regextype
-.IR help ).
+regular expressions.
+The possible types are
+.RS
+.TP
+.I posix-basic
+POSIX basic regular expressions (the default).
+.TP
+.I posix-extended
+POSIX extended resular expressions.
+.TP
+.I ed
+Like
+.BR ed (1)
+(same as
+.IR posix-basic ).
+.TP
+.I emacs
+Like
+.BR emacs (1).
+.TP
+.I grep
+Like
+.BR grep (1).
+.TP
+.I sed
+Like
+.BR sed (1)
+(same as
+.IR posix-basic ).
+.PP
+See
+.BR regex (7)
+for a description of regular expression syntax.
+.RE
.TP
.B \-status
Display a status bar while searching.
@@ -403,6 +452,10 @@ Find files with POSIX.1e
.BR capabilities (7)
set.
.TP
+\fB\-context \fIGLOB\fR
+Find files whose SELinux context matches the
+.IR GLOB .
+.TP
\fB\-depth\fR [\fI\-+\fR]\fIN\fR
Find files with depth
.IR N .
@@ -426,9 +479,9 @@ Find files the current user can execute/read/write.
Always false/true.
.RE
.TP
-.B \-fstype TYPE
+\fB\-fstype \fITYPE\fR
Find files on file systems with the given
-.BR TYPE .
+.IR TYPE .
.PP
\fB\-gid\fR [\fI\-+\fR]\fIN\fR
.br
@@ -506,13 +559,12 @@ to parse
as an ISO 8601-style timestamp. For example:
.PP
.RS
-1991-12-14
-.br
-1991-12-14T03:00
-.br
-1991-12-14T03:00-07:00
-.br
-1991-12-14T10:00Z
+.nf
+\(bu \fI1991-12-14\fR
+\(bu \fI1991-12-14T03:00\fR
+\(bu \fI1991-12-14T03:00-07:00\fR
+\(bu '\fI1991-12-14 10:00Z\fR'
+.fi
.RE
.PP
.B \-nogroup
@@ -549,35 +601,67 @@ See
for examples of the timestamp format.
.TP
\fB\-size\fR [\fI\-+\fR]\fIN\fR[\fIcwbkMGTP\fR]
-Find files with the given size, in 1-byte
-.IR c haracters,
-2-byte
-.IR w ords,
-512-byte
-.IR b locks
-(default), or
-.IR k iB/ M iB/ G iB/ T iB/ P iB.
+Find files with the given size.
+The unit can be one of
+.PP
+.RS
+.nf
+\(bu \fIc\fRhars (1 byte)
+\(bu \fIw\fRords (2 bytes)
+\(bu \fIb\fRlocks (512 bytes, the default)
+\(bu \fIk\fRiB (1024 bytes)
+\(bu \fIM\fRiB (1024 kiB)
+\(bu \fIG\fRiB (1024 MiB)
+\(bu \fIT\fRiB (1024 GiB)
+\(bu \fIP\fRiB (1024 TiB)
+.fi
+.RE
.TP
.B \-sparse
Find files that occupy fewer disk blocks than expected.
.TP
\fB\-type\fR [\fIbcdlpfswD\fR]
Find files of the given type.
-Possible types are
+The possible types are
+.PP
+.RS
+\(bu
.IR b lock
-device,
+device
+.br
+\(bu
.IR c haracter
-device,
-.IR d irectory,
-symbolic
-.IR l ink,
-.IR p ipe,
-regular
-.IR f ile,
-.IR s ocket,
-.IR w hiteout,
-and
-.IR D oor.
+device
+.br
+\(bu
+.IR d irectory
+.br
+\(bu
+.IR l ink
+(symbolic)
+.br
+\(bu
+.IR p ipe
+.br
+\(bu
+.IR f ile
+(regular)
+.br
+\(bu
+.IR s ocket
+.br
+\(bu
+.IR w hiteout
+.br
+\(bu
+.IR D oor
+.PP
+Multiple types can be given at once, separated by commas.
+For example,
+.B \-type
+.I d,f
+matches both directories and regular files.
+.RE
.TP
\fB\-used\fR [\fI\-+\fR]\fIN\fR
Find files last accessed
@@ -626,7 +710,9 @@ but run the command in the same directory as the found file(s).
.RE
.TP
\fB\-exit\fR [\fISTATUS\fR]
-Exit immediately with the given status (0 if unspecified).
+Exit immediately with the given status
+.RI ( 0
+if unspecified).
.PP
\fB\-fls \fIFILE\fR
.br
@@ -643,6 +729,11 @@ but write to
instead of standard output.
.RE
.TP
+\fB\-limit \fIN\fR
+Quit once this action is evaluated
+.I N
+times.
+.TP
.B \-ls
List files like
.B ls
@@ -689,15 +780,16 @@ instead.
.TP
.B \-prune
Don't descend into this directory.
+This has no effect if
+.B \-depth
+is enabled (either explicitly, or implicitly by
+.BR \-delete ).
+Use
+.B \-exclude
+instead in that case.
.TP
.B \-quit
Quit immediately.
-.TP
-.B \-version
-Print version information.
-.TP
-.B \-help
-Print usage information.
.SH ENVIRONMENT
Certain environment variables affect the behavior of
.BR bfs .
@@ -748,17 +840,48 @@ Specifies the pager used for
.B \-help
output.
Defaults to
+.BR less (1),
+if found on the current
+.BR PATH ,
+otherwise
.BR more (1).
.TP
+.B PATH
+Used to resolve executables for
+.BR \-exec [ dir ]
+and
+.BR \-ok [ dir ].
+.TP
.B POSIXLY_CORRECT
Makes
.B bfs
conform more strictly to the POSIX.1-2017 specification for
.BR find (1).
-Currently this just disables warnings by default.
+Currently this has two effects:
+.RS
+.IP \(bu
+Disables warnings by default, because POSIX prohibits writing to standard error (except for the
+.B \-ok
+prompt), unless the command also fails with a non-zero exit status.
+.IP \(bu
+Makes
+.B \-ls
+and
+.B \-fls
+use 512-byte blocks instead of 1024-byte blocks.
+(POSIX does not specify these actions, but BSD
+.BR find (1)
+implementations use 512-byte blocks, while GNU
+.BR find (1)
+uses 1024-byte blocks by default.)
+.PP
It does not disable
.BR bfs 's
various extensions to the base POSIX functionality.
+.B POSIXLY_CORRECT
+has the same effects on GNU
+.BR find (1).
+.RE
.SH EXAMPLES
.TP
.B bfs
@@ -795,7 +918,7 @@ skipping every
.B .git
directory.
.TP
-.B bfs \-type f \-executable \-exec strip '{}' +
+.B bfs \-type f \-executable \-exec strip {} +
Runs
.BR strip (1)
on all executable files it finds, passing it multiple files at a time.