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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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6 | <sect1 id="ch-system-findutils" xreflabel="Findutils">
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7 | <title>Findutils-&findutils-version;</title>
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8 | <?dbhtml filename="findutils.html"?>
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9 |
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10 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils"><primary sortas="a-Findutils">Findutils</primary></indexterm>
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11 |
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12 | <para>The Findutils package contains programs to find files. Processes
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13 | are provided to recursively search through a directory tree and to
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14 | create, maintain and search a database (often faster than the recursive
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15 | find, but unreliable if the database has not been recently updated).</para>
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16 |
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17 | <screen>&buildtime; 0.2 SBU
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18 | &diskspace; 7.5 MB</screen>
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19 |
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20 | <para>Findutils installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils,
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21 | Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.</para>
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22 |
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24 |
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25 | <sect2>
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26 | <title>Installation of Findutils</title>
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27 |
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28 | <para>Prepare Findutils for compilation:</para>
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29 |
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30 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib/locate \
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31 | --localstatedir=/var/lib/misc</userinput></screen>
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32 |
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33 | <para>The localstatedir directive above changes the location of the locate
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34 | database to be in /var/lib/misc, which is FHS-compliant.</para>
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35 |
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36 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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37 |
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38 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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39 |
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40 | <para>To test the results, issue:
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41 | <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
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42 |
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43 | <para>Now install the package:</para>
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44 |
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45 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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46 |
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47 | </sect2>
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48 |
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49 |
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50 | <sect2 id="contents-findutils"><title>Contents of Findutils</title>
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51 |
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52 | <para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: bigram, code, find, frcode,
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53 | locate, updatedb and xargs</para>
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54 |
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55 | </sect2>
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56 |
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57 |
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58 | <sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
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59 |
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60 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils bigram"><primary sortas="b-bigram">bigram</primary></indexterm>
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61 | <para id="bigram"><command>bigram</command> was formerly used to produce locate
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62 | databases.</para>
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63 |
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64 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils code"><primary sortas="b-code">code</primary></indexterm>
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65 | <para id="code"><command>code</command> was formerly used to produce locate
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66 | databases. It is the ancestor of frcode.</para>
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67 |
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68 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils find"><primary sortas="b-find">find</primary></indexterm>
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69 | <para id="find"><command>find</command> searches given directory trees for files
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70 | matching the specified criteria.</para>
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71 |
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72 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils frcode"><primary sortas="b-frcode">frcode</primary></indexterm>
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73 | <para id="frcode"><command>frcode</command> is called by updatedb to compress the
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74 | list of file names. It uses front-compression, reducing the database size by a
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75 | factor of 4 to 5.</para>
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76 |
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77 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils locate"><primary sortas="b-locate">locate</primary></indexterm>
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78 | <para id="locate"><command>locate</command> searches through a database of file names,
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79 | and reports the names that contain a given string or match a given pattern.</para>
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80 |
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81 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils updatedb"><primary sortas="b-updatedb">updatedb</primary></indexterm>
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82 | <para id="updatedb"><command>updatedb</command> updates the locate database. It scans
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83 | the entire file system (including other file systems that are currently mounted,
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84 | unless told not to) and puts every file name it finds in the database.</para>
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85 |
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86 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils xargs"><primary sortas="b-xargs">xargs</primary></indexterm>
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87 | <para id="xargs"><command>xargs</command> can be used to apply a given command to
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88 | a list of files.</para>
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89 |
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90 | </sect2>
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91 |
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92 |
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93 |
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94 | </sect1>
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