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[3f8be484] | 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent"> |
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| 5 | %general-entities; |
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| 6 | ]> |
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| 7 | |
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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-system-findutils" role="wrap"> |
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="findutils.html"?> |
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| 10 | |
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| 11 | <title>Findutils-&findutils-version;</title> |
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| 12 | |
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| 13 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils"> |
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| 14 | <primary sortas="a-Findutils">Findutils</primary> |
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| 15 | </indexterm> |
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| 16 | |
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| 17 | <sect2 role="package"> |
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| 18 | <title/> |
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| 19 | |
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| 20 | <para>The Findutils package contains programs to find files. These programs |
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| 21 | are provided to recursively search through a directory tree and to |
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| 22 | create, maintain, and search a database (often faster than the recursive |
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| 23 | find, but unreliable if the database has not been recently updated).</para> |
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| 24 | |
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| 25 | </sect2> |
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| 26 | |
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| 27 | <sect2 role="installation"> |
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| 28 | <title>Installation of Findutils</title> |
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| 29 | |
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| 30 | <para os="a">Prepare Findutils for compilation:</para> |
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| 31 | |
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[e0e40d3] | 32 | <screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib/locate \ |
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[3f8be484] | 33 | --localstatedir=/var/lib/locate</userinput></screen> |
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| 34 | |
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[e0e40d3] | 35 | <variablelist os="c"> |
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[3f8be484] | 36 | <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title> |
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| 37 | |
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| 38 | <varlistentry> |
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| 39 | <term><parameter>--localstatedir</parameter></term> |
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| 40 | <listitem> |
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| 41 | <para>This option changes the location of the <command>locate</command> |
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| 42 | database to be in <filename class="directory">/var/lib/locate</filename>, |
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| 43 | which is FHS-compliant.</para> |
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| 44 | </listitem> |
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| 45 | </varlistentry> |
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| 46 | |
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| 47 | </variablelist> |
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| 48 | |
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[e0e40d3] | 49 | <para os="d">Compile the package:</para> |
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[3f8be484] | 50 | |
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[e0e40d3] | 51 | <screen os="e"><userinput>make</userinput></screen> |
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[3f8be484] | 52 | |
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[e0e40d3] | 53 | <para os="f">To test the results, issue: |
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[3f8be484] | 54 | <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para> |
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| 55 | |
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[e0e40d3] | 56 | <para os="g">Install the package:</para> |
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[3f8be484] | 57 | |
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[e0e40d3] | 58 | <screen os="h"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen> |
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[3f8be484] | 59 | |
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[040521bc] | 60 | <para os="i">The <command>find</command> program is used by some of the scripts |
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[e990cbd9] | 61 | in the CLFS-Bootscripts package. As <filename |
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| 62 | class="directory">/usr</filename> may not be available during the early |
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[807f5e5] | 63 | stages of booting, the <command>find</command> binary needs to be on |
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| 64 | the root partition:</para> |
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[e990cbd9] | 65 | |
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[fcdaf47] | 66 | <screen os="j"><userinput>mv -v /usr/bin/find /bin</userinput></screen> |
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[e990cbd9] | 67 | |
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[807f5e5] | 68 | <para os="k">The <command>updatedb</command> script needs to be modified |
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| 69 | to point to the new location for <command>find</command>:</para> |
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| 70 | |
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| 71 | <screen os="l"><userinput>sed -i 's@find:=${BINDIR}@find:=/bin@' /usr/bin/updatedb</userinput></screen> |
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| 72 | |
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[3f8be484] | 73 | </sect2> |
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| 74 | |
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| 75 | <sect2 id="contents-findutils" role="content"> |
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| 76 | <title>Contents of Findutils</title> |
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| 77 | |
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| 78 | <segmentedlist> |
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| 79 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle> |
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[61ad0b7f] | 80 | <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle> |
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[3f8be484] | 81 | |
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| 82 | <seglistitem> |
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[427015f] | 83 | <seg>bigram, code, find, frcode, locate, oldfind, updatedb, and xargs</seg> |
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[61ad0b7f] | 84 | <seg>/usr/lib/locate</seg> |
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[3f8be484] | 85 | </seglistitem> |
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| 86 | </segmentedlist> |
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| 87 | |
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| 88 | <variablelist> |
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| 89 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead> |
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| 90 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?> |
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| 91 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?> |
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| 92 | |
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| 93 | <varlistentry id="bigram"> |
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| 94 | <term><command>bigram</command></term> |
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| 95 | <listitem> |
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| 96 | <para>Was formerly used to produce <command>locate</command> |
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| 97 | databases</para> |
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| 98 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils bigram"> |
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| 99 | <primary sortas="b-bigram">bigram</primary> |
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| 100 | </indexterm> |
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| 101 | </listitem> |
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| 102 | </varlistentry> |
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| 103 | |
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| 104 | <varlistentry id="code"> |
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| 105 | <term><command>code</command></term> |
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| 106 | <listitem> |
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| 107 | <para>Was formerly used to produce <command>locate</command> |
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| 108 | databases; it is the ancestor of <command>frcode</command>.</para> |
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| 109 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils code"> |
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| 110 | <primary sortas="b-code">code</primary> |
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| 111 | </indexterm> |
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| 112 | </listitem> |
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| 113 | </varlistentry> |
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| 114 | |
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| 115 | <varlistentry id="find"> |
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| 116 | <term><command>find</command></term> |
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| 117 | <listitem> |
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| 118 | <para>Searches given directory trees for files matching the specified |
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| 119 | criteria</para> |
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| 120 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils find"> |
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| 121 | <primary sortas="b-find">find</primary> |
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| 122 | </indexterm> |
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| 123 | </listitem> |
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| 124 | </varlistentry> |
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| 125 | |
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| 126 | <varlistentry id="frcode"> |
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| 127 | <term><command>frcode</command></term> |
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| 128 | <listitem> |
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| 129 | <para>Is called by <command>updatedb</command> to compress the list |
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| 130 | of file names; it uses front-compression, reducing the database size |
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| 131 | by a factor of four to five.</para> |
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| 132 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils frcode"> |
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| 133 | <primary sortas="b-frcode">frcode</primary> |
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| 134 | </indexterm> |
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| 135 | </listitem> |
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| 136 | </varlistentry> |
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| 137 | |
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| 138 | <varlistentry id="locate"> |
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| 139 | <term><command>locate</command></term> |
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| 140 | <listitem> |
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| 141 | <para>Searches through a database of file names and reports the names |
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| 142 | that contain a given string or match a given pattern</para> |
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| 143 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils locate"> |
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| 144 | <primary sortas="b-locate">locate</primary> |
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| 145 | </indexterm> |
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| 146 | </listitem> |
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| 147 | </varlistentry> |
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| 148 | |
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[427015f] | 149 | <varlistentry id="oldfind"> |
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| 150 | <term><command>oldfind</command></term> |
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| 151 | <listitem> |
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[653cf49] | 152 | <para>Older version of find, using a different algorithm</para> |
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[427015f] | 153 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils oldfind"> |
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| 154 | <primary sortas="b-oldfind">oldfind</primary> |
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| 155 | </indexterm> |
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| 156 | </listitem> |
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| 157 | </varlistentry> |
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| 158 | |
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[3f8be484] | 159 | <varlistentry id="updatedb"> |
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| 160 | <term><command>updatedb</command></term> |
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| 161 | <listitem> |
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| 162 | <para>Updates the <command>locate</command> database; it scans the |
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| 163 | entire file system (including other file systems that are currently |
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| 164 | mounted, unless told not to) and puts every file name it finds into |
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| 165 | the database</para> |
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| 166 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils updatedb"> |
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| 167 | <primary sortas="b-updatedb">updatedb</primary> |
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| 168 | </indexterm> |
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| 169 | </listitem> |
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| 170 | </varlistentry> |
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| 171 | |
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| 172 | <varlistentry id="xargs"> |
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| 173 | <term><command>xargs</command></term> |
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| 174 | <listitem> |
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| 175 | <para>Can be used to apply a given command to a list of files</para> |
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| 176 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils xargs"> |
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| 177 | <primary sortas="b-xargs">xargs</primary> |
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| 178 | </indexterm> |
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| 179 | </listitem> |
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| 180 | </varlistentry> |
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| 181 | |
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| 182 | </variablelist> |
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| 183 | |
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| 184 | </sect2> |
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| 185 | |
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| 186 | </sect1> |
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