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1 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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3 | <sect2><title>Descriptions</title>
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5 | <para>(Last checked against version &findutils-contversion;.)</para>
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7 | <sect3><title>Program file descriptions</title>
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9 | <para><command>bigram</command> was formerly used to produce locate
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10 | databases.</para>
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11 |
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12 | <para><command>code</command> was formerly used to produce locate
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13 | databases. It is is the ancestor of frcode.</para>
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15 | <para><command>find</command> searches given directory trees for files
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16 | matching the specified criteria.</para>
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18 | <para><command>frcode</command> is called by updatedb to compress the
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19 | list of file names. It uses front-compression, reducing the database size by a
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20 | factor of 4 to 5.</para>
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21 |
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22 | <para><command>locate</command> searches through a database of file names,
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23 | and reports the names that contain a given string or match a given pattern.</para>
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24 |
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25 | <para><command>updatedb</command> updates the locate database. It scans
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26 | the entire filesystem (including other filesystems that are currently mounted,
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27 | unless told not to) and puts every file name it finds in the database.</para>
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28 |
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29 | <para><command>xargs</command> can be used to apply a given command to
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30 | a list of files.</para>
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32 | </sect3>
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34 | </sect2>
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