source: chapter08/findutils.xml

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<sect1 id="ch-system-findutils" role="wrap">
  <?dbhtml filename="findutils.html"?>

  <sect1info condition="script">
    <productname>findutils</productname>
    <productnumber>&findutils-version;</productnumber>
    <address>&findutils-url;</address>
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  <title>Findutils-&findutils-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils">
    <primary sortas="a-Findutils">Findutils</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para>The Findutils package contains programs to find files. Programs
    are provided to search through all the files in a directory tree and to
    create, maintain, and search a database (often faster than the recursive
    find, but unreliable unless the database has been updated recently).
    Findutils also supplies the <command>xargs</command> program, which
    can be used to run a specified command on each file selected by a search.</para>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>&findutils-fin-sbu;</seg>
        <seg>&findutils-fin-du;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Findutils</title>

    <para>Prepare Findutils for compilation:</para>

<!-- no longer needed with gcc13
<screen><userinput remap="configure">case $(uname -m) in
    i?86)   TIME_T_32_BIT_OK=yes ./configure - -prefix=/usr - -localstatedir=/var/lib/locate ;;
    x86_64) ./configure - -prefix=/usr - -localstatedir=/var/lib/locate ;;
esac</userinput></screen>
-->
    <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var/lib/locate</userinput></screen>

    <variablelist>
      <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
<!--
      <varlistentry>
        <term><command>TIME_32_BIT_OK=yes</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>This setting is needed for building on a 32 bit system.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
-->
      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>--localstatedir</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>This option moves the <command>locate</command>
          database to <filename class="directory">/var/lib/locate</filename>,
          which is the FHS-compliant location.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

    <para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>

    <para>To test the results, issue:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="test">chown -R tester .
su tester -c "PATH=$PATH make check"</userinput></screen>

    <para>Install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-findutils" role="content">
    <title>Contents of Findutils</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>find, locate, updatedb, and xargs</seg>
        <seg>/var/lib/locate</seg>
      </seglistitem>

    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="find">
        <term><command>find</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Searches given directory trees for files matching the specified
          criteria</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils find">
            <primary sortas="b-find">find</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="locate">
        <term><command>locate</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Searches through a database of file names and reports the names
          that contain a given string or match a given pattern</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils locate">
            <primary sortas="b-locate">locate</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="updatedb">
      <term><command>updatedb</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Updates the <command>locate</command> database; it scans the
          entire file system (including other file systems that are currently
          mounted, unless told not to) and puts every file name it finds into
          the database</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils updatedb">
            <primary sortas="b-updatedb">updatedb</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="xargs">
        <term><command>xargs</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Can be used to apply a given command to a list of files</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils xargs">
            <primary sortas="b-xargs">xargs</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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