source: clfs-sysroot/BOOK/final-system/common/findutils.xml @ 32a0631

Last change on this file since 32a0631 was 32a0631, checked in by Joe Ciccone <jciccone@…>, 18 years ago

Fixes a possible issue with bootscripts if the /usr partition is not mounted during startup. Moved find to /bin and some kbd utilities to /bin.

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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  <sect2 role="package">
18    <title/>
19
20    <para>The Findutils package contains programs to find files. These programs
21    are provided to recursively search through a directory tree and to
22    create, maintain, and search a database (often faster than the recursive
23    find, but unreliable if the database has not been recently updated).</para>
24
25  </sect2>
26
27  <sect2 role="installation">
28    <title>Installation of Findutils</title>
29
30    <para os="a">Prepare Findutils for compilation:</para>
31
32<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --host=${CLFS_TARGET} \
33    --libexecdir=/usr/lib/locate --localstatedir=/var/lib/locate</userinput></screen>
34
35    <variablelist os="c">
36      <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
37
38      <varlistentry>
39        <term><parameter>--localstatedir</parameter></term>
40        <listitem>
41          <para>This option changes the location of the <command>locate</command>
42          database to be in <filename class="directory">/var/lib/locate</filename>,
43          which is FHS-compliant.</para>
44        </listitem>
45      </varlistentry>
46
47    </variablelist>
48
49    <para os="d">Compile the package:</para>
50
51<screen os="e"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
52
53    <para os="f">Install the package:</para>
54
55<screen os="g"><userinput>make DESTDIR=${CLFS} install</userinput></screen>
56
57    <para os="h">Find from Findutils is used by some of the scripts
58    in the CLFS-Bootscripts package. As <filename
59    class="directory">/usr</filename> may not be available during the early
60    stages of booting, those binaries need to be on the root partition:</para>
61
62<screen os="i"><userinput>mv -v ${CLFS}/usr/bin/find ${CLFS}/bin/find</userinput></screen>
63
64  </sect2>
65
66  <sect2 id="contents-findutils" role="content">
67    <title>Contents of Findutils</title>
68
69    <segmentedlist>
70      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
71
72      <seglistitem>
73        <seg>bigram, code, find, frcode, locate, updatedb, and xargs</seg>
74      </seglistitem>
75    </segmentedlist>
76
77    <variablelist>
78      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
79      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
80      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
81
82      <varlistentry id="bigram">
83        <term><command>bigram</command></term>
84        <listitem>
85          <para>Was formerly used to produce <command>locate</command>
86          databases</para>
87          <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils bigram">
88            <primary sortas="b-bigram">bigram</primary>
89          </indexterm>
90        </listitem>
91      </varlistentry>
92
93      <varlistentry id="code">
94        <term><command>code</command></term>
95        <listitem>
96          <para>Was formerly used to produce <command>locate</command>
97          databases; it is the ancestor of <command>frcode</command>.</para>
98          <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils code">
99            <primary sortas="b-code">code</primary>
100          </indexterm>
101        </listitem>
102      </varlistentry>
103
104      <varlistentry id="find">
105        <term><command>find</command></term>
106        <listitem>
107          <para>Searches given directory trees for files matching the specified
108          criteria</para>
109          <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils find">
110            <primary sortas="b-find">find</primary>
111          </indexterm>
112        </listitem>
113      </varlistentry>
114
115      <varlistentry id="frcode">
116        <term><command>frcode</command></term>
117        <listitem>
118          <para>Is called by <command>updatedb</command> to compress the list
119          of file names; it uses front-compression, reducing the database size
120          by a factor of four to five.</para>
121          <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils frcode">
122            <primary sortas="b-frcode">frcode</primary>
123          </indexterm>
124        </listitem>
125      </varlistentry>
126
127      <varlistentry id="locate">
128        <term><command>locate</command></term>
129        <listitem>
130          <para>Searches through a database of file names and reports the names
131          that contain a given string or match a given pattern</para>
132          <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils locate">
133            <primary sortas="b-locate">locate</primary>
134          </indexterm>
135        </listitem>
136      </varlistentry>
137
138      <varlistentry id="updatedb">
139        <term><command>updatedb</command></term>
140        <listitem>
141          <para>Updates the <command>locate</command> database; it scans the
142          entire file system (including other file systems that are currently
143          mounted, unless told not to) and puts every file name it finds into
144          the database</para>
145          <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils updatedb">
146            <primary sortas="b-updatedb">updatedb</primary>
147          </indexterm>
148        </listitem>
149      </varlistentry>
150
151      <varlistentry id="xargs">
152        <term><command>xargs</command></term>
153        <listitem>
154          <para>Can be used to apply a given command to a list of files</para>
155          <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils xargs">
156            <primary sortas="b-xargs">xargs</primary>
157          </indexterm>
158        </listitem>
159      </varlistentry>
160
161    </variablelist>
162
163  </sect2>
164
165</sect1>
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