source: final-system/common/findutils.xml@ 0ee0247

Last change on this file since 0ee0247 was 0f06076, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 19 years ago

r3371@server (orig r1554): chris | 2006-05-10 14:03:44 -0700
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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 --libexecdir=/usr/lib/locate \
33 --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">To test the results, issue:
54 <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
55
56 <para os="g">Install the package:</para>
57
58<screen os="h"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
59
60 </sect2>
61
62 <sect2 id="contents-findutils" role="content">
63 <title>Contents of Findutils</title>
64
65 <segmentedlist>
66 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
67
68 <seglistitem>
69 <seg>bigram, code, find, frcode, locate, updatedb, and xargs</seg>
70 </seglistitem>
71 </segmentedlist>
72
73 <variablelist>
74 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
75 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
76 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
77
78 <varlistentry id="bigram">
79 <term><command>bigram</command></term>
80 <listitem>
81 <para>Was formerly used to produce <command>locate</command>
82 databases</para>
83 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils bigram">
84 <primary sortas="b-bigram">bigram</primary>
85 </indexterm>
86 </listitem>
87 </varlistentry>
88
89 <varlistentry id="code">
90 <term><command>code</command></term>
91 <listitem>
92 <para>Was formerly used to produce <command>locate</command>
93 databases; it is the ancestor of <command>frcode</command>.</para>
94 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils code">
95 <primary sortas="b-code">code</primary>
96 </indexterm>
97 </listitem>
98 </varlistentry>
99
100 <varlistentry id="find">
101 <term><command>find</command></term>
102 <listitem>
103 <para>Searches given directory trees for files matching the specified
104 criteria</para>
105 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils find">
106 <primary sortas="b-find">find</primary>
107 </indexterm>
108 </listitem>
109 </varlistentry>
110
111 <varlistentry id="frcode">
112 <term><command>frcode</command></term>
113 <listitem>
114 <para>Is called by <command>updatedb</command> to compress the list
115 of file names; it uses front-compression, reducing the database size
116 by a factor of four to five.</para>
117 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils frcode">
118 <primary sortas="b-frcode">frcode</primary>
119 </indexterm>
120 </listitem>
121 </varlistentry>
122
123 <varlistentry id="locate">
124 <term><command>locate</command></term>
125 <listitem>
126 <para>Searches through a database of file names and reports the names
127 that contain a given string or match a given pattern</para>
128 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils locate">
129 <primary sortas="b-locate">locate</primary>
130 </indexterm>
131 </listitem>
132 </varlistentry>
133
134 <varlistentry id="updatedb">
135 <term><command>updatedb</command></term>
136 <listitem>
137 <para>Updates the <command>locate</command> database; it scans the
138 entire file system (including other file systems that are currently
139 mounted, unless told not to) and puts every file name it finds into
140 the database</para>
141 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils updatedb">
142 <primary sortas="b-updatedb">updatedb</primary>
143 </indexterm>
144 </listitem>
145 </varlistentry>
146
147 <varlistentry id="xargs">
148 <term><command>xargs</command></term>
149 <listitem>
150 <para>Can be used to apply a given command to a list of files</para>
151 <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils xargs">
152 <primary sortas="b-xargs">xargs</primary>
153 </indexterm>
154 </listitem>
155 </varlistentry>
156
157 </variablelist>
158
159 </sect2>
160
161</sect1>
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