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 11.5 Summary
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 Where untrusted parties can create files on the system, or affect the
 names of files that are created, all uses for 'find', 'locate' and
 'xargs' have known security problems except the following:
 
 Informational use only
      Uses where the programs are used to prepare lists of file names
      upon which no further action will ever be taken.
 
 '-delete'
      Use of the '-delete' action with 'find' to delete files which meet
      specified criteria
 
 '-execdir'
      Use of the '-execdir' action with 'find' where the 'PATH'
      environment variable contains directories which contain only
      trusted programs.
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