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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 4 | %general-entities;
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| 5 | ]>
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[752f4e5] | 6 | <sect1 id="ch-system-findutils" role="wrap">
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[673b0d8] | 7 | <title>Findutils-&findutils-version;</title>
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| 8 | <?dbhtml filename="findutils.html"?>
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[6370fa6] | 9 |
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[673b0d8] | 10 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils"><primary sortas="a-Findutils">Findutils</primary></indexterm>
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[5888299] | 11 |
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[a001133] | 12 | <sect2 role="package"><title/>
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[673b0d8] | 13 | <para>The Findutils package contains programs to find files. Processes
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| 14 | are provided to recursively search through a directory tree and to
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[69993f4] | 15 | create, maintain, and search a database (often faster than the recursive
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[673b0d8] | 16 | find, but unreliable if the database has not been recently updated).</para>
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| 17 |
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[a001133] | 18 | <segmentedlist>
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| 19 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 20 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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| 21 | <seglistitem><seg>0.2 SBU</seg><seg>7.5 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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| 22 | </segmentedlist>
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[673b0d8] | 23 |
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[a001133] | 24 | <segmentedlist>
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| 25 | <segtitle>Findutils installation depends on</segtitle>
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| 26 | <seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils,
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[7566baf] | 27 | Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
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[a001133] | 28 | </segmentedlist>
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| 29 | </sect2>
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[3554fa3a] | 30 |
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[a001133] | 31 | <sect2 role="installation">
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[f4993cf] | 32 | <title>Installation of Findutils</title>
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[73aedd1d] | 33 |
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| 34 | <para>Prepare Findutils for compilation:</para>
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| 35 |
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[2a264e0b] | 36 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib/locate \
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[9dfc02f] | 37 | --localstatedir=/var/lib/locate</userinput></screen>
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[73aedd1d] | 38 |
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[7566baf] | 39 | <para>The <parameter>localstatedir</parameter> directive above changes the
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| 40 | location of the <command>locate</command> database to be in <filename
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| 41 | class="directory">/var/lib/locate</filename>, which is FHS-compliant.</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 42 |
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| 43 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 44 |
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| 45 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 46 |
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[673b0d8] | 47 | <para>To test the results, issue:
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[8a5f906] | 48 | <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 49 |
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[ef13657] | 50 | <para>Install the package:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 51 |
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| 52 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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[2256873] | 53 | <beginpage/>
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[73aedd1d] | 54 | </sect2>
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[6370fa6] | 55 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 56 | <sect2 id="contents-findutils" role="content"><title>Contents of Findutils</title>
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[673b0d8] | 57 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 58 | <segmentedlist>
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| 59 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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[69993f4] | 60 | <seglistitem><seg>bigram, code, find, frcode, locate, updatedb, and xargs</seg></seglistitem>
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[c6cb3aa] | 61 | </segmentedlist>
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[673b0d8] | 62 |
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[2256873] | 63 | <variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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[3ed279f] | 64 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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[673b0d8] | 65 |
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[b8a819f] | 66 | <varlistentry id="bigram">
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| 67 | <term><command>bigram</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 68 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 69 | <para>Was formerly used to produce <command>locate</command> databases</para>
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[3ed279f] | 70 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils bigram"><primary sortas="b-bigram">bigram</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 71 | </listitem>
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| 72 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 73 |
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[b8a819f] | 74 | <varlistentry id="code">
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| 75 | <term><command>code</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 76 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 77 | <para>Was formerly used to produce <command>locate</command>
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| 78 | databases; it is the ancestor of <command>frcode</command>.</para>
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[3ed279f] | 79 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils code"><primary sortas="b-code">code</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 80 | </listitem>
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| 81 | </varlistentry>
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[6370fa6] | 82 |
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[b8a819f] | 83 | <varlistentry id="find">
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| 84 | <term><command>find</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 85 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 86 | <para>Searches given directory trees for files matching the specified criteria</para>
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[3ed279f] | 87 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils find"><primary sortas="b-find">find</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 88 | </listitem>
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| 89 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 90 |
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[b8a819f] | 91 | <varlistentry id="frcode">
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| 92 | <term><command>frcode</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 93 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 94 | <para>Is called by <command>updatedb</command> to compress the list of file names; it uses
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[ef13657] | 95 | front-compression, reducing the database size by a factor of four to
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| 96 | five.</para>
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[3ed279f] | 97 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils frcode"><primary sortas="b-frcode">frcode</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 98 | </listitem>
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| 99 | </varlistentry>
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| 100 |
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[b8a819f] | 101 | <varlistentry id="locate">
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| 102 | <term><command>locate</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 103 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 104 | <para>Searches through a database of file names and reports the names
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| 105 | that contain a given string or match a given pattern</para>
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[3ed279f] | 106 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils locate"><primary sortas="b-locate">locate</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 107 | </listitem>
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| 108 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 109 |
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[b8a819f] | 110 | <varlistentry id="updatedb">
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| 111 | <term><command>updatedb</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 112 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 113 | <para>Updates the <command>locate</command> database; it scans
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[673b0d8] | 114 | the entire file system (including other file systems that are currently mounted,
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[2256873] | 115 | unless told not to) and puts every file name it finds into the database</para>
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[3ed279f] | 116 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils updatedb"><primary sortas="b-updatedb">updatedb</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 117 | </listitem>
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| 118 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 119 |
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[b8a819f] | 120 | <varlistentry id="xargs">
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| 121 | <term><command>xargs</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 122 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 123 | <para>Can be used to apply a given command to a list of files</para>
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[3ed279f] | 124 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils xargs"><primary sortas="b-xargs">xargs</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 125 | </listitem>
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| 126 | </varlistentry>
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| 127 | </variablelist>
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[673b0d8] | 128 |
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| 129 | </sect2>
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| 130 |
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| 131 | </sect1>
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[ef13657] | 132 |
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