AUTHORS of findutils I do not know the name of the original author of the findutils package, but the authors of all the major components are known. Eric B. Decker contributed GNU find and Michael Rendell contributed xargs. James A. Woods contributed locate. Here are the names of some authors culled from ChangeLog and miscellaneous other files. The main criterion for whether your name ends up in this file or in THANKS is that the people with entries here donated code or documentation which was significant enough to require a copyright assignment. The locate program and its helper programs are derived (heavily modified) from James Woods' public domain fast-find code, which is also distributed with the 4.3BSD find. Eric B. Decker , Michael Rendell David J. MacKenzie Jim Meyering Tim Wood Kevin Dalley Paul Eggert James Youngman Jay Plett Paul Sheer Dmitry V. Levin Bas van Gompel Eric Blake Andreas Metzler Kamil Dudka The current maintainer of the findutils package is James Youngman. Questions about findutils should be addressed to the mailing list, which, contrary to the impression given by its name, is used for general discussion of the findutils package.