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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 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
18 href="../common/findutils.xml"
19 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@role='package'])"/>
20
21 <sect2 role="installation">
22 <title>Installation of Findutils</title>
23
24 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
25 href="../common/findutils.xml"
26 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='a'])"/>
27
28<screen os="b"><userinput>CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" ./configure --prefix=/usr \
29 --libexecdir=/usr/lib64/locate --localstatedir=/var/lib64/locate</userinput></screen>
30
31 <variablelist os="c">
32 <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
33
34 <varlistentry>
35 <term><parameter>--localstatedir</parameter></term>
36 <listitem>
37 <para>This option changes the location of the <command>locate</command>
38 database to be in <filename class="directory">/var/lib64/locate</filename>,
39 which is FHS-compliant.</para>
40 </listitem>
41 </varlistentry>
42
43 </variablelist>
44
45 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
46 href="../common/findutils.xml"
47 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='d'])"/>
48
49 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
50 href="../common/findutils.xml"
51 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='e'])"/>
52
53 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
54 href="../common/findutils.xml"
55 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='f'])"/>
56
57 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
58 href="../common/findutils.xml"
59 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='f2'])"/>
60
61 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
62 href="../common/findutils.xml"
63 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='g'])"/>
64
65 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
66 href="../common/findutils.xml"
67 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='h'])"/>
68
69 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
70 href="../common/findutils.xml"
71 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='i'])"/>
72
73 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
74 href="../common/findutils.xml"
75 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='j'])"/>
76
77 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
78 href="../common/findutils.xml"
79 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='k'])"/>
80
81 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
82 href="../common/findutils.xml"
83 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='l'])"/>
84
85 </sect2>
86
87 <sect2 id="contents-findutils" role="content">
88 <title>Contents of Findutils</title>
89
90 <segmentedlist>
91 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
92
93 <seglistitem>
94 <seg>bigram, code, find, frcode, locate, updatedb, and xargs</seg>
95 </seglistitem>
96 </segmentedlist>
97
98 <variablelist>
99 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
100 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
101 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
102
103 <varlistentry id="bigram">
104 <term><command>bigram</command></term>
105 <listitem>
106 <para>Was formerly used to produce <command>locate</command>
107 databases</para>
108 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils bigram">
109 <primary sortas="b-bigram">bigram</primary>
110 </indexterm>
111 </listitem>
112 </varlistentry>
113
114 <varlistentry id="code">
115 <term><command>code</command></term>
116 <listitem>
117 <para>Was formerly used to produce <command>locate</command>
118 databases; it is the ancestor of <command>frcode</command>.</para>
119 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils code">
120 <primary sortas="b-code">code</primary>
121 </indexterm>
122 </listitem>
123 </varlistentry>
124
125 <varlistentry id="find">
126 <term><command>find</command></term>
127 <listitem>
128 <para>Searches given directory trees for files matching the specified
129 criteria</para>
130 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils find">
131 <primary sortas="b-find">find</primary>
132 </indexterm>
133 </listitem>
134 </varlistentry>
135
136 <varlistentry id="frcode">
137 <term><command>frcode</command></term>
138 <listitem>
139 <para>Is called by <command>updatedb</command> to compress the list
140 of file names; it uses front-compression, reducing the database size
141 by a factor of four to five.</para>
142 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils frcode">
143 <primary sortas="b-frcode">frcode</primary>
144 </indexterm>
145 </listitem>
146 </varlistentry>
147
148 <varlistentry id="locate">
149 <term><command>locate</command></term>
150 <listitem>
151 <para>Searches through a database of file names and reports the names
152 that contain a given string or match a given pattern</para>
153 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils locate">
154 <primary sortas="b-locate">locate</primary>
155 </indexterm>
156 </listitem>
157 </varlistentry>
158
159 <varlistentry id="updatedb">
160 <term><command>updatedb</command></term>
161 <listitem>
162 <para>Updates the <command>locate</command> database; it scans the
163 entire file system (including other file systems that are currently
164 mounted, unless told not to) and puts every file name it finds into
165 the database</para>
166 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils updatedb">
167 <primary sortas="b-updatedb">updatedb</primary>
168 </indexterm>
169 </listitem>
170 </varlistentry>
171
172 <varlistentry id="xargs">
173 <term><command>xargs</command></term>
174 <listitem>
175 <para>Can be used to apply a given command to a list of files</para>
176 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils xargs">
177 <primary sortas="b-xargs">xargs</primary>
178 </indexterm>
179 </listitem>
180 </varlistentry>
181
182 </variablelist>
183
184 </sect2>
185
186</sect1>
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