Changeset 0a12f0a for chapter08/findutils.xml

Timestamp:

12/10/2022 11:30:11 PM (18 months ago)

Author:

Thomas Trepl <thomas@…>

Branches:

multilib

Children:

28a0e48

Parents:

f8c7e95 (diff), abc3648 (diff)
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Message:

Automatic merge of trunk into multilib

File:

• chapter08/findutils.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

chapter08/findutils.xml

@@ -24 +24 @@
     <title/>
 
-    <para>The Findutils package contains programs to find files. These programs
-    are provided to recursively search through a directory tree and to
+    <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 is unreliable if the database has not been recently updated).</para>
+    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>
@@ -64 +66 @@
         <term><parameter>--localstatedir</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>This option changes the location of the <command>locate</command>
-          database to be in <filename class="directory">/var/lib/locate</filename>,
-          which is FHS-compliant.</para>
+          <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>