| [8fcc2c0] | 1 | <sect2><title>Contents of Findutils</title>
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| 3 | <para>Last checked against version &findutils-contversion;.</para>
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| [6370fa6] | 4 |
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| [bdc08c1] | 5 | <sect3><title>Program Files</title>
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| 6 | <para>bigram, code, find, frcode, locate, updatedb and
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| 7 | xargs</para></sect3>
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| [6370fa6] | 8 |
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| [bdc08c1] | 9 | <sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
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| [6370fa6] | 10 |
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| [bdc08c1] | 11 | <sect4><title>bigram</title>
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| [53ad30a] | 12 | <para>bigram is used together with code to produce older-style locate
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| 13 | databases. To learn more about these last three programs, read the locatedb.5
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| [bdc08c1] | 14 | manual page.</para></sect4>
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| [53ad30a] | 15 |
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| [bdc08c1] | 16 | <sect4><title>code</title>
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| [53ad30a] | 17 | <para>code is the ancestor of frcode. It was used in older-style locate
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| [bdc08c1] | 18 | databases.</para></sect4>
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| [6370fa6] | 19 |
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| [bdc08c1] | 20 | <sect4><title>find</title>
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| [b822811] | 21 | <para>The find program searches for files in a directory hierarchy which match
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| [6370fa6] | 22 | a certain criteria. If no criteria is given, it lists all files in the
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| [bdc08c1] | 23 | current directory and its subdirectories.</para></sect4>
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| [6370fa6] | 24 |
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| [bdc08c1] | 25 | <sect4><title>frcode</title>
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| [cf24ff1] | 26 | <para>frcode is called by updatedb to compress the list of file names
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| [53ad30a] | 27 | using front-compression, which reduces the database size by a factor of
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| [bdc08c1] | 28 | 4 to 5.</para></sect4>
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| [6370fa6] | 29 |
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| [bdc08c1] | 30 | <sect4><title>locate</title>
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| [695ae0bc] | 31 | <para>locate scans a database which contains all files and directories on a
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| [6370fa6] | 32 | filesystem. This program lists the files and directories in this
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| [3cc70a0] | 33 | database matching a certain criteria. If a user is looking for a file this
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| 34 | program will scan the database and tell him exactly where the files he
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| 35 | requested are located. This only makes sense if the locate database is
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| [695ae0bc] | 36 | fairly up-to-date, else it will provide out-of-date information.</para></sect4>
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| [6370fa6] | 37 |
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| [bdc08c1] | 38 | <sect4><title>updatedb</title>
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| [b822811] | 39 | <para>The updatedb program updates the locate database. It scans the entire
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| [695ae0bc] | 40 | file system (including other file systems that are currently mounted
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| [3cc70a0] | 41 | unless it is told not to do so) and puts every directory and file it finds
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| [695ae0bc] | 42 | into the database that's used by the locate program, which retrieves this
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| [51c0c603] | 43 | information. It's good practice to update this database once a day to
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| [bdc08c1] | 44 | have it up-to-date whenever it is needed.</para></sect4>
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| [6370fa6] | 45 |
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| [bdc08c1] | 46 | <sect4><title>xargs</title>
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| [b822811] | 47 | <para>The xargs command applies a command to a list of files. If there is
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| [695ae0bc] | 48 | a need to perform the same command on multiple files, a list can be created
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| 49 | that names all those files (one per line) and xargs can perform that
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| 50 | command on those files.</para></sect4>
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| [bdc08c1] | 51 |
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| 52 | </sect3>
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| [eb9c756] | 53 |
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| [6370fa6] | 54 | </sect2>
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