diff --git a/basis/io/directories/search/search-docs.factor b/basis/io/directories/search/search-docs.factor
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/basis/io/directories/search/search-docs.factor
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+! Copyright (C) 2009 Doug Coleman.
+! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license.
+USING: help.markup help.syntax kernel quotations ;
+IN: io.directories.search
+
+HELP: each-file
+{ $values
+     { "path" "a pathname string" } { "bfs?" "a boolean, breadth-first or depth-first" } { "quot" quotation }
+}
+{ $description "Performs a directory traversal, breadth-first or depth-first, and calls the quotation on the full pathname of each file." }
+{ $examples
+    { $unchecked-example "USING: sequences io.directories.search ;"
+        "\"resource:misc\" t [ . ] each-file"
+        "! Recursive directory listing prints here"
+    }
+} ;
+
+HELP: recursive-directory
+{ $values
+     { "path" "a pathname string" } { "bfs?" "a boolean, breadth-first or depth-first" }
+     { "paths" "a sequence of pathname strings" }
+}
+{ $description "Traverses a directory path recursively and returns a sequence of files in a breadth-first or depth-first manner." } ;
+
+HELP: find-file
+{ $values
+     { "path" "a pathname string" } { "bfs?" "a boolean, breadth-first or depth-first" } { "quot" quotation }
+     { "path/f" "a pathname string or f" }
+}
+{ $description "Finds the first file in the input directory matching the predicate quotation in a breadth-first or depth-first traversal." } ;
+
+HELP: find-in-directories
+{ $values
+     { "directories" "a sequence of pathnames" } { "bfs?" "a boolean, breadth-first or depth-first" } { "quot" quotation }
+     { "path'" "a pathname string" }
+}
+{ $description "Finds the first file in the input directories matching the predicate quotation in a breadth-first or depth-first traversal." } ;
+
+HELP: find-all-files
+{ $values
+     { "path" "a pathname string" } { "bfs?" "a boolean, breadth-first or depth-first" } { "quot" quotation }
+     { "paths" "a sequence of pathname strings" }
+}
+{ $description "Finds all files in the input directory matching the predicate quotation in a breadth-first or depth-first traversal." } ;
+
+HELP: find-all-in-directories
+{ $values
+     { "directories" "a sequence of directory paths" } { "bfs?" "a boolean, breadth-first or depth-first" } { "quot" quotation }
+     { "paths" "a sequence of pathname strings" }
+}
+{ $description "Finds all files in the input directories matching the predicate quotation in a breadth-first or depth-first traversal." } ;
+
+{ find-file find-all-files find-in-directories find-all-in-directories } related-words
+
+ARTICLE: "io.directories.search" "io.directories.search"
+"The " { $vocab-link "io.directories.search" } " vocabulary contains words used for recursively iterating over a directory and for finding files in a directory tree." $nl
+"Traversing directories:"
+{ $subsection recursive-directory }
+{ $subsection each-file }
+"Finding files:"
+{ $subsection find-file }
+{ $subsection find-all-files }
+{ $subsection find-in-directories }
+{ $subsection find-all-in-directories } ;
+
+ABOUT: "io.directories.search"
diff --git a/basis/io/directories/search/search.factor b/basis/io/directories/search/search.factor
index 137e919412..d1fdff34f9 100755
--- a/basis/io/directories/search/search.factor
+++ b/basis/io/directories/search/search.factor
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ io.directories io.files io.files.info io.pathnames kernel
 sequences system vocabs.loader ;
 IN: io.directories.search
 
-TUPLE: directory-iterator path bfs queue ;
-
 <PRIVATE
 
+TUPLE: directory-iterator path bfs queue ;
+
 : qualified-directory ( path -- seq )
     dup directory-files [ append-path ] with map ;
 
@@ -38,22 +38,25 @@ TUPLE: directory-iterator path bfs queue ;
 
 PRIVATE>
 
+: each-file ( path bfs? quot: ( obj -- ) -- )
+    [ <directory-iterator> ] dip
+    [ f ] compose iterate-directory drop ; inline
+
+: recursive-directory ( path bfs? -- paths )
+    [ ] accumulator [ each-file ] dip ;
+
 : find-file ( path bfs? quot: ( obj -- ? ) -- path/f )
     [ <directory-iterator> ] dip
     [ keep and ] curry iterate-directory ; inline
 
-: each-file ( path bfs? quot: ( obj -- ? ) -- )
-    [ <directory-iterator> ] dip
-    [ f ] compose iterate-directory drop ; inline
-
 : find-all-files ( path bfs? quot: ( obj -- ? ) -- paths )
     [ <directory-iterator> ] dip
     pusher [ [ f ] compose iterate-directory drop ] dip ; inline
 
-: recursive-directory ( path bfs? -- paths )
-    [ ] accumulator [ each-file ] dip ;
+: find-in-directories ( directories bfs? quot: ( obj -- ? ) -- path' )
+    '[ _ _ find-file ] attempt-all ;
 
-: find-in-directories ( directories bfs? quot -- path' )
-    '[ _ _ find-file ] attempt-all ; inline
+: find-all-in-directories ( directories bfs? quot: ( obj -- ? ) -- paths )
+    '[ _ _ find-all-files ] map concat ;
 
 os windows? [ "io.directories.search.windows" require ] when