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1<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
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3<sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
4
5<para><command>bigram</command> was formerly used to produce locate
6databases.</para>
7
8<para><command>code</command> was formerly used to produce locate
9databases. It is the ancestor of frcode.</para>
10
11<para><command>find</command> searches given directory trees for files
12matching the specified criteria.</para>
13
14<para><command>frcode</command> is called by updatedb to compress the
15list of file names. It uses front-compression, reducing the database size by a
16factor of 4 to 5.</para>
17
18<para><command>locate</command> searches through a database of file names,
19and reports the names that contain a given string or match a given pattern.</para>
20
21<para><command>updatedb</command> updates the locate database. It scans
22the entire filesystem (including other filesystems that are currently mounted,
23unless told not to) and puts every file name it finds in the database.</para>
24
25<para><command>xargs</command> can be used to apply a given command to
26a list of files.</para>
27
28</sect2>
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