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Last change on this file since 5b72bba was 6bb43b3, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 18 years ago

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r851@server: jim | 2005-12-01 12:07:08 -0800
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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  %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/2003/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/2003/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/2003/XInclude"
46    href="../common/findutils.xml"
47    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='d'])"/>
48
49    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
50    href="../common/findutils.xml"
51    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='e'])"/>
52
53    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
54    href="../common/findutils.xml"
55    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='f'])"/>
56
57    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
58    href="../common/findutils.xml"
59    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='g'])"/>
60
61    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
62    href="../common/findutils.xml"
63    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='h'])"/>
64
65  </sect2>
66
67  <sect2 id="contents-findutils" role="content">
68    <title>Contents of Findutils</title>
69
70    <segmentedlist>
71      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
72
73      <seglistitem>
74        <seg>bigram, code, find, frcode, locate, updatedb, and xargs</seg>
75      </seglistitem>
76    </segmentedlist>
77
78    <variablelist>
79      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
80      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
81      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
82
83      <varlistentry id="bigram">
84        <term><command>bigram</command></term>
85        <listitem>
86          <para>Was formerly used to produce <command>locate</command>
87          databases</para>
88          <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils bigram">
89            <primary sortas="b-bigram">bigram</primary>
90          </indexterm>
91        </listitem>
92      </varlistentry>
93
94      <varlistentry id="code">
95        <term><command>code</command></term>
96        <listitem>
97          <para>Was formerly used to produce <command>locate</command>
98          databases; it is the ancestor of <command>frcode</command>.</para>
99          <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils code">
100            <primary sortas="b-code">code</primary>
101          </indexterm>
102        </listitem>
103      </varlistentry>
104
105      <varlistentry id="find">
106        <term><command>find</command></term>
107        <listitem>
108          <para>Searches given directory trees for files matching the specified
109          criteria</para>
110          <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils find">
111            <primary sortas="b-find">find</primary>
112          </indexterm>
113        </listitem>
114      </varlistentry>
115
116      <varlistentry id="frcode">
117        <term><command>frcode</command></term>
118        <listitem>
119          <para>Is called by <command>updatedb</command> to compress the list
120          of file names; it uses front-compression, reducing the database size
121          by a factor of four to five.</para>
122          <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils frcode">
123            <primary sortas="b-frcode">frcode</primary>
124          </indexterm>
125        </listitem>
126      </varlistentry>
127
128      <varlistentry id="locate">
129        <term><command>locate</command></term>
130        <listitem>
131          <para>Searches through a database of file names and reports the names
132          that contain a given string or match a given pattern</para>
133          <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils locate">
134            <primary sortas="b-locate">locate</primary>
135          </indexterm>
136        </listitem>
137      </varlistentry>
138
139      <varlistentry id="updatedb">
140        <term><command>updatedb</command></term>
141        <listitem>
142          <para>Updates the <command>locate</command> database; it scans the
143          entire file system (including other file systems that are currently
144          mounted, unless told not to) and puts every file name it finds into
145          the database</para>
146          <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils updatedb">
147            <primary sortas="b-updatedb">updatedb</primary>
148          </indexterm>
149        </listitem>
150      </varlistentry>
151
152      <varlistentry id="xargs">
153        <term><command>xargs</command></term>
154        <listitem>
155          <para>Can be used to apply a given command to a list of files</para>
156          <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils xargs">
157            <primary sortas="b-xargs">xargs</primary>
158          </indexterm>
159        </listitem>
160      </varlistentry>
161
162    </variablelist>
163
164  </sect2>
165
166</sect1>
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