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[3f8be484]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
[aa18ac0]2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
[3f8be484]4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-findutils" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="findutils.html"?>
10
11 <title>Findutils-&findutils-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils">
14 <primary sortas="a-Findutils">Findutils</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The Findutils package contains programs to find files. These programs
21 are provided to recursively search through a directory tree and to
22 create, maintain, and search a database (often faster than the recursive
23 find, but unreliable if the database has not been recently updated).</para>
24
25 </sect2>
26
27 <sect2 role="installation">
28 <title>Installation of Findutils</title>
29
30 <para os="a">Prepare Findutils for compilation:</para>
31
[b27081c4]32<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure \
33 --prefix=/usr \
34 --libexecdir=/usr/lib/locate \
[3f8be484]35 --localstatedir=/var/lib/locate</userinput></screen>
36
[e0e40d3]37 <variablelist os="c">
[3f8be484]38 <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
39
40 <varlistentry>
41 <term><parameter>--localstatedir</parameter></term>
42 <listitem>
43 <para>This option changes the location of the <command>locate</command>
44 database to be in <filename class="directory">/var/lib/locate</filename>,
45 which is FHS-compliant.</para>
46 </listitem>
47 </varlistentry>
48
49 </variablelist>
50
[e0e40d3]51 <para os="d">Compile the package:</para>
[3f8be484]52
[e0e40d3]53<screen os="e"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]54
[686839b]55 <para os="f">To test the results, issue:</para>
56
57<screen os="f2"><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]58
[e0e40d3]59 <para os="g">Install the package:</para>
[3f8be484]60
[e0e40d3]61<screen os="h"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]62
63 </sect2>
64
65 <sect2 id="contents-findutils" role="content">
66 <title>Contents of Findutils</title>
67
68 <segmentedlist>
69 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
[61ad0b7f]70 <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
[3f8be484]71
72 <seglistitem>
[c2102b28]73 <seg>bigram, code, find, frcode, locate, oldfind, updatedb, xargs</seg>
[61ad0b7f]74 <seg>/usr/lib/locate</seg>
[3f8be484]75 </seglistitem>
76 </segmentedlist>
77
78 <variablelist>
79 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
80 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
81 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
82
83 <varlistentry id="bigram">
84 <term><command>bigram</command></term>
85 <listitem>
86 <para>Was formerly used to produce <command>locate</command>
87 databases</para>
88 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils bigram">
89 <primary sortas="b-bigram">bigram</primary>
90 </indexterm>
91 </listitem>
92 </varlistentry>
93
94 <varlistentry id="code">
95 <term><command>code</command></term>
96 <listitem>
97 <para>Was formerly used to produce <command>locate</command>
98 databases; it is the ancestor of <command>frcode</command>.</para>
99 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils code">
100 <primary sortas="b-code">code</primary>
101 </indexterm>
102 </listitem>
103 </varlistentry>
104
105 <varlistentry id="find">
106 <term><command>find</command></term>
107 <listitem>
108 <para>Searches given directory trees for files matching the specified
109 criteria</para>
110 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils find">
111 <primary sortas="b-find">find</primary>
112 </indexterm>
113 </listitem>
114 </varlistentry>
115
116 <varlistentry id="frcode">
117 <term><command>frcode</command></term>
118 <listitem>
119 <para>Is called by <command>updatedb</command> to compress the list
120 of file names; it uses front-compression, reducing the database size
121 by a factor of four to five.</para>
122 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils frcode">
123 <primary sortas="b-frcode">frcode</primary>
124 </indexterm>
125 </listitem>
126 </varlistentry>
127
128 <varlistentry id="locate">
129 <term><command>locate</command></term>
130 <listitem>
131 <para>Searches through a database of file names and reports the names
132 that contain a given string or match a given pattern</para>
133 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils locate">
134 <primary sortas="b-locate">locate</primary>
135 </indexterm>
136 </listitem>
137 </varlistentry>
138
[427015f]139 <varlistentry id="oldfind">
140 <term><command>oldfind</command></term>
141 <listitem>
[653cf49]142 <para>Older version of find, using a different algorithm</para>
[427015f]143 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils oldfind">
144 <primary sortas="b-oldfind">oldfind</primary>
145 </indexterm>
146 </listitem>
147 </varlistentry>
148
[3f8be484]149 <varlistentry id="updatedb">
150 <term><command>updatedb</command></term>
151 <listitem>
152 <para>Updates the <command>locate</command> database; it scans the
153 entire file system (including other file systems that are currently
154 mounted, unless told not to) and puts every file name it finds into
155 the database</para>
156 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils updatedb">
157 <primary sortas="b-updatedb">updatedb</primary>
158 </indexterm>
159 </listitem>
160 </varlistentry>
161
162 <varlistentry id="xargs">
163 <term><command>xargs</command></term>
164 <listitem>
165 <para>Can be used to apply a given command to a list of files</para>
166 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils xargs">
167 <primary sortas="b-xargs">xargs</primary>
168 </indexterm>
169 </listitem>
170 </varlistentry>
171
172 </variablelist>
173
174 </sect2>
175
176</sect1>
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