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