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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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6 | <sect1 id="ch-system-findutils" xreflabel="Findutils" role="wrap">
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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 | <sect2 role="package"><title/>
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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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15 | create, maintain and search a database (often faster than the recursive
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16 | find, but unreliable if the database has not been recently updated).</para>
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17 |
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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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23 |
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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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27 | Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed</seg></seglistitem>
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28 | </segmentedlist>
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29 | </sect2>
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30 |
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31 | <sect2 role="installation">
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32 | <title>Installation of Findutils</title>
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33 |
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34 | <para>Prepare Findutils for compilation:</para>
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35 |
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36 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib/locate \
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37 | --localstatedir=/var/lib/locate</userinput></screen>
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38 |
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39 | <para>The localstatedir directive above changes the location of the locate
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40 | database to be in /var/lib/locate, which is FHS-compliant.</para>
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41 |
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42 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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43 |
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44 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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45 |
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46 | <para>To test the results, issue:
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47 | <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
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48 |
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49 | <para>Now install the package:</para>
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50 |
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51 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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52 |
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53 | </sect2>
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54 |
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55 |
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56 | <sect2 id="contents-findutils" role="content"><title>Contents of Findutils</title>
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57 |
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58 | <segmentedlist>
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59 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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60 | <seglistitem><seg>bigram, code, find, frcode, locate, updatedb and xargs</seg></seglistitem>
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61 | </segmentedlist>
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62 |
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63 | <variablelist><title>Short descriptions</title>
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64 |
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65 | <varlistentry>
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66 | <term id="bigram"><command>bigram</command></term>
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67 | <listitem>
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68 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils bigram"><primary sortas="b-bigram">bigram</primary></indexterm>
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69 | <para>was formerly used to produce locate databases.</para>
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70 | </listitem>
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71 | </varlistentry>
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72 |
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73 | <varlistentry>
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74 | <term id="code"><command>code</command></term>
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75 | <listitem>
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76 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils code"><primary sortas="b-code">code</primary></indexterm>
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77 | <para>was formerly used to produce locate
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78 | databases. It is the ancestor of frcode.</para>
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79 | </listitem>
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80 | </varlistentry>
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81 |
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82 | <varlistentry>
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83 | <term id="find"><command>find</command></term>
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84 | <listitem>
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85 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils find"><primary sortas="b-find">find</primary></indexterm>
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86 | <para>searches given directory trees for files matching the specified criteria.</para>
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87 | </listitem>
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88 | </varlistentry>
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89 |
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90 | <varlistentry>
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91 | <term id="frcode"><command>frcode</command></term>
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92 | <listitem>
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93 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils frcode"><primary sortas="b-frcode">frcode</primary></indexterm>
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94 | <para>is called by updatedb to compress the list of file names. It uses
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95 | front-compression, reducing the database size by a factor of 4 to 5.</para>
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96 | </listitem>
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97 | </varlistentry>
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98 |
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99 | <varlistentry>
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100 | <term id="locate"><command>locate</command></term>
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101 | <listitem>
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102 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils locate"><primary sortas="b-locate">locate</primary></indexterm>
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103 | <para>searches through a database of file names,
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104 | and reports the names that contain a given string or match a given pattern.</para>
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105 | </listitem>
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106 | </varlistentry>
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107 |
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108 | <varlistentry>
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109 | <term id="updatedb"><command>updatedb</command></term>
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110 | <listitem>
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111 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils updatedb"><primary sortas="b-updatedb">updatedb</primary></indexterm>
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112 | <para>updates the locate database. It scans
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113 | the entire file system (including other file systems that are currently mounted,
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114 | unless told not to) and puts every file name it finds in the database.</para>
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115 | </listitem>
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116 | </varlistentry>
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117 |
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118 | <varlistentry>
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119 | <term id="xargs"><command>xargs</command></term>
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120 | <listitem>
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121 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils xargs"><primary sortas="b-xargs">xargs</primary></indexterm>
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122 | <para>can be used to apply a given command to a list of files.</para>
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123 | </listitem>
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124 | </varlistentry>
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125 | </variablelist>
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126 |
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127 | </sect2>
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128 |
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129 | </sect1>
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