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