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Clarified the description of what the programs in this package do.

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Added a note about xargs. Corrected English idiom.
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David Bryant 2022-12-10 11:37:17 -06:00
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<sect2 role="package">
<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>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
@ -63,9 +65,9 @@ esac</userinput></screen>
<varlistentry>
<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>