source: appendixa/findutils-desc.xml@ c288d97

10.0 10.0-rc1 10.1 10.1-rc1 11.0 11.0-rc1 11.0-rc2 11.0-rc3 11.1 11.1-rc1 11.2 11.2-rc1 11.3 11.3-rc1 12.0 12.0-rc1 12.1 12.1-rc1 6.0 6.1 6.1.1 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.5-systemd 7.6 7.6-systemd 7.7 7.7-systemd 7.8 7.8-systemd 7.9 7.9-systemd 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 9.0 9.1 arm bdubbs/gcc13 ml-11.0 multilib renodr/libudev-from-systemd s6-init trunk v5_1 v5_1_1 xry111/arm64 xry111/arm64-12.0 xry111/clfs-ng xry111/lfs-next xry111/loongarch xry111/loongarch-12.0 xry111/loongarch-12.1 xry111/mips64el xry111/pip3 xry111/rust-wip-20221008 xry111/update-glibc
Last change on this file since c288d97 was ab3b93b, checked in by Alex Gronenwoud <alex@…>, 20 years ago

Writing 'file system' as two words everywhere.

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3198 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

  • Property mode set to 100644
File size: 1.0 KB
Line 
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 file system (including other file systems 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>
27
Note: See TracBrowser for help on using the repository browser.