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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 <!ENTITY % patches-entities SYSTEM "../../patches.ent">
6 %general-entities;
7 %patches-entities;
8]>
9
10<sect1 id="ch-system-findutils" role="wrap">
11 <?dbhtml filename="findutils.html"?>
12
13 <title>Findutils-&findutils-version;</title>
14
15 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils">
16 <primary sortas="a-Findutils">Findutils</primary>
17 </indexterm>
18
19 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
20 href="../common/findutils.xml"
21 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@role='package'])"/>
22
23 <sect2 role="installation">
24 <title>Installation of Findutils</title>
25
26 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
27 href="../common/findutils.xml"
28 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='a'])"/>
29
30<screen><userinput>CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" ./configure --prefix=/usr \
31 --libexecdir=/usr/lib64/locate --localstatedir=/var/lib64/locate</userinput></screen>
32
33 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
34 href="../common/findutils.xml"
35 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='b'])"/>
36
37 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
38 href="../common/findutils.xml"
39 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c'])"/>
40
41 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
42 href="../common/findutils.xml"
43 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='d'])"/>
44
45 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
46 href="../common/findutils.xml"
47 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='e'])"/>
48
49 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
50 href="../common/findutils.xml"
51 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='f'])"/>
52
53 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
54 href="../common/findutils.xml"
55 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='g'])"/>
56
57 </sect2>
58
59 <sect2 id="contents-findutils" role="content">
60 <title>Contents of Findutils</title>
61
62 <segmentedlist>
63 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
64
65 <seglistitem>
66 <seg>bigram, code, find, frcode, locate, updatedb, and xargs</seg>
67 </seglistitem>
68 </segmentedlist>
69
70 <variablelist>
71 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
72 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
73 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
74
75 <varlistentry id="bigram">
76 <term><command>bigram</command></term>
77 <listitem>
78 <para>Was formerly used to produce <command>locate</command>
79 databases</para>
80 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils bigram">
81 <primary sortas="b-bigram">bigram</primary>
82 </indexterm>
83 </listitem>
84 </varlistentry>
85
86 <varlistentry id="code">
87 <term><command>code</command></term>
88 <listitem>
89 <para>Was formerly used to produce <command>locate</command>
90 databases; it is the ancestor of <command>frcode</command>.</para>
91 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils code">
92 <primary sortas="b-code">code</primary>
93 </indexterm>
94 </listitem>
95 </varlistentry>
96
97 <varlistentry id="find">
98 <term><command>find</command></term>
99 <listitem>
100 <para>Searches given directory trees for files matching the specified
101 criteria</para>
102 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils find">
103 <primary sortas="b-find">find</primary>
104 </indexterm>
105 </listitem>
106 </varlistentry>
107
108 <varlistentry id="frcode">
109 <term><command>frcode</command></term>
110 <listitem>
111 <para>Is called by <command>updatedb</command> to compress the list
112 of file names; it uses front-compression, reducing the database size
113 by a factor of four to five.</para>
114 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils frcode">
115 <primary sortas="b-frcode">frcode</primary>
116 </indexterm>
117 </listitem>
118 </varlistentry>
119
120 <varlistentry id="locate">
121 <term><command>locate</command></term>
122 <listitem>
123 <para>Searches through a database of file names and reports the names
124 that contain a given string or match a given pattern</para>
125 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils locate">
126 <primary sortas="b-locate">locate</primary>
127 </indexterm>
128 </listitem>
129 </varlistentry>
130
131 <varlistentry id="updatedb">
132 <term><command>updatedb</command></term>
133 <listitem>
134 <para>Updates the <command>locate</command> database; it scans the
135 entire file system (including other file systems that are currently
136 mounted, unless told not to) and puts every file name it finds into
137 the database</para>
138 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils updatedb">
139 <primary sortas="b-updatedb">updatedb</primary>
140 </indexterm>
141 </listitem>
142 </varlistentry>
143
144 <varlistentry id="xargs">
145 <term><command>xargs</command></term>
146 <listitem>
147 <para>Can be used to apply a given command to a list of files</para>
148 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils xargs">
149 <primary sortas="b-xargs">xargs</primary>
150 </indexterm>
151 </listitem>
152 </varlistentry>
153
154 </variablelist>
155
156 </sect2>
157
158</sect1>
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