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