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1<sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
2
3<para><command>bigram</command> was formerly used to produce locate
4databases.</para>
5
6<para><command>code</command> was formerly used to produce locate
7databases. It is the ancestor of frcode.</para>
8
9<para><command>find</command> searches given directory trees for files
10matching the specified criteria.</para>
11
12<para><command>frcode</command> is called by updatedb to compress the
13list of file names. It uses front-compression, reducing the database size by a
14factor of 4 to 5.</para>
15
16<para><command>locate</command> searches through a database of file names,
17and reports the names that contain a given string or match a given pattern.</para>
18
19<para><command>updatedb</command> updates the locate database. It scans
20the entire filesystem (including other filesystems that are currently mounted,
21unless told not to) and puts every file name it finds in the database.</para>
22
23<para><command>xargs</command> can be used to apply a given command to
24a list of files.</para>
25
26</sect2>
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