[673b0d8] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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[1fe35e1] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE section [
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[673b0d8] | 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 4 | %general-entities;
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| 5 | ]>
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[1fe35e1] | 6 | <section xmlns="http://docbook.org/docbook-ng"
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| 7 | xml:id="ch-system-findutils" xreflabel="Findutils" role="wrap">
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[6a0e6f3] | 8 | <title>Findutils-&findutils-version;</title>
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[673b0d8] | 9 | <?dbhtml filename="findutils.html"?>
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[6370fa6] | 10 |
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[673b0d8] | 11 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils"><primary sortas="a-Findutils">Findutils</primary></indexterm>
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[5888299] | 12 |
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[6a0e6f3] | 13 | <section role="package"><title/>
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[673b0d8] | 14 | <para>The Findutils package contains programs to find files. Processes
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| 15 | are provided to recursively search through a directory tree and to
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| 16 | create, maintain and search a database (often faster than the recursive
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| 17 | find, but unreliable if the database has not been recently updated).</para>
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| 18 |
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[a001133] | 19 | <segmentedlist>
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| 20 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 21 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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| 22 | <seglistitem><seg>0.2 SBU</seg><seg>7.5 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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| 23 | </segmentedlist>
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[673b0d8] | 24 |
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[a001133] | 25 | <segmentedlist>
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| 26 | <segtitle>Findutils installation depends on</segtitle>
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| 27 | <seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils,
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| 28 | Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed</seg></seglistitem>
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| 29 | </segmentedlist>
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[1fe35e1] | 30 | </section>
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[3554fa3a] | 31 |
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[1fe35e1] | 32 | <section role="installation">
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[6a0e6f3] | 33 | <title>Installation of Findutils</title>
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[73aedd1d] | 34 |
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| 35 | <para>Prepare Findutils for compilation:</para>
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| 36 |
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[2a264e0b] | 37 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib/locate \
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[9dfc02f] | 38 | --localstatedir=/var/lib/locate</userinput></screen>
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[73aedd1d] | 39 |
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[2a264e0b] | 40 | <para>The localstatedir directive above changes the location of the locate
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[bb55064] | 41 | database to be in <filename class="directory">/var/lib/locate</filename>,
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| 42 | which is FHS-compliant.</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 43 |
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| 44 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 47 |
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[673b0d8] | 48 | <para>To test the results, issue:
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[8a5f906] | 49 | <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 50 |
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[673b0d8] | 51 | <para>Now install the package:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 52 |
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| 53 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 54 |
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[1fe35e1] | 55 | </section>
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[6370fa6] | 56 |
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[5888299] | 57 |
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[6a0e6f3] | 58 | <section xml:id="contents-findutils" role="content"><title>Contents of Findutils</title>
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[673b0d8] | 59 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 60 | <segmentedlist>
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| 61 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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| 62 | <seglistitem><seg>bigram, code, find, frcode, locate, updatedb and xargs</seg></seglistitem>
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| 63 | </segmentedlist>
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[673b0d8] | 64 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 65 | <variablelist><title>Short descriptions</title>
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[673b0d8] | 66 |
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[1fe35e1] | 67 | <varlistentry xml:id="bigram">
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[b8a819f] | 68 | <term><command>bigram</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 69 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 70 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils bigram"><primary sortas="b-bigram">bigram</primary></indexterm>
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[bb55064] | 71 | <para>was formerly used to produce <command>locate</command> databases.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 72 | </listitem>
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| 73 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 74 |
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[1fe35e1] | 75 | <varlistentry xml:id="code">
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[b8a819f] | 76 | <term><command>code</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 77 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 78 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils code"><primary sortas="b-code">code</primary></indexterm>
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[bb55064] | 79 | <para>was formerly used to produce <command>locate</command>
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| 80 | databases. It is the ancestor of <command>frcode</command>.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 81 | </listitem>
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| 82 | </varlistentry>
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[6370fa6] | 83 |
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[1fe35e1] | 84 | <varlistentry xml:id="find">
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[b8a819f] | 85 | <term><command>find</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 86 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 87 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils find"><primary sortas="b-find">find</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 88 | <para>searches given directory trees for files matching the specified criteria.</para>
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| 89 | </listitem>
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| 90 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 91 |
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[1fe35e1] | 92 | <varlistentry xml:id="frcode">
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[b8a819f] | 93 | <term><command>frcode</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 94 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 95 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils frcode"><primary sortas="b-frcode">frcode</primary></indexterm>
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[bb55064] | 96 | <para>is called by <command>updatedb</command> to compress the list of file names. It uses
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[c6cb3aa] | 97 | front-compression, reducing the database size by a factor of 4 to 5.</para>
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| 98 | </listitem>
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| 99 | </varlistentry>
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| 100 |
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[1fe35e1] | 101 | <varlistentry xml:id="locate">
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[b8a819f] | 102 | <term><command>locate</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 103 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 104 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils locate"><primary sortas="b-locate">locate</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 105 | <para>searches through a database of file names,
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[673b0d8] | 106 | and reports the names that contain a given string or match a given pattern.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 107 | </listitem>
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| 108 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 109 |
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[1fe35e1] | 110 | <varlistentry xml:id="updatedb">
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[b8a819f] | 111 | <term><command>updatedb</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 112 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 113 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils updatedb"><primary sortas="b-updatedb">updatedb</primary></indexterm>
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[bb55064] | 114 | <para>updates the <command>locate</command> database. It scans
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[673b0d8] | 115 | the entire file system (including other file systems that are currently mounted,
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| 116 | unless told not to) and puts every file name it finds in the database.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 117 | </listitem>
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| 118 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 119 |
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[1fe35e1] | 120 | <varlistentry xml:id="xargs">
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[b8a819f] | 121 | <term><command>xargs</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 122 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 123 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils xargs"><primary sortas="b-xargs">xargs</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 124 | <para>can be used to apply a given command to a list of files.</para>
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| 125 | </listitem>
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| 126 | </varlistentry>
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| 127 | </variablelist>
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[673b0d8] | 128 |
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[1fe35e1] | 129 | </section>
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[673b0d8] | 130 |
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[1fe35e1] | 131 | </section>
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