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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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