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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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<!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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<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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%general-entities;
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]>
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<sect1 id="ch-system-findutils" xreflabel="Findutils" role="wrap">
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<title>Findutils-&findutils-version;</title>
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<?dbhtml filename="findutils.html"?>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils"><primary sortas="a-Findutils">Findutils</primary></indexterm>
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<sect2 role="package"><title/>
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<para>The Findutils package contains programs to find files. Processes
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are provided to recursively search through a directory tree and to
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create, maintain and search a database (often faster than the recursive
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find, but unreliable if the database has not been recently updated).</para>
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<segmentedlist>
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<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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<seglistitem><seg>0.2 SBU</seg><seg>7.5 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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</segmentedlist>
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<segmentedlist>
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<segtitle>Findutils installation depends on</segtitle>
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<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils,
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Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed</seg></seglistitem>
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</segmentedlist>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 role="installation">
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<title>Installation of Findutils</title>
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<para>Prepare Findutils for compilation:</para>
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<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib/locate \
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--localstatedir=/var/lib/locate</userinput></screen>
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<para>The localstatedir directive above changes the location of the locate
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database to be in <filename class="directory">/var/lib/locate</filename>,
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which is FHS-compliant.</para>
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<para>Compile the package:</para>
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<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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<para>To test the results, issue:
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<userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
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<para>Now install the package:</para>
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<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="contents-findutils" role="content"><title>Contents of Findutils</title>
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<segmentedlist>
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<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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<seglistitem><seg>bigram, code, find, frcode, locate, updatedb and xargs</seg></seglistitem>
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</segmentedlist>
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<variablelist><title>Short descriptions</title>
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<varlistentry id="bigram">
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<term><command>bigram</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils bigram"><primary sortas="b-bigram">bigram</primary></indexterm>
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<para>was formerly used to produce <command>locate</command> databases.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="code">
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<term><command>code</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils code"><primary sortas="b-code">code</primary></indexterm>
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<para>was formerly used to produce <command>locate</command>
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databases. It is the ancestor of <command>frcode</command>.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="find">
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<term><command>find</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils find"><primary sortas="b-find">find</primary></indexterm>
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<para>searches given directory trees for files matching the specified criteria.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="frcode">
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<term><command>frcode</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils frcode"><primary sortas="b-frcode">frcode</primary></indexterm>
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<para>is called by <command>updatedb</command> to compress the list of file names. It uses
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front-compression, reducing the database size by a factor of 4 to 5.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="locate">
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<term><command>locate</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils locate"><primary sortas="b-locate">locate</primary></indexterm>
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<para>searches through a database of file names,
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and reports the names that contain a given string or match a given pattern.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="updatedb">
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<term><command>updatedb</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils updatedb"><primary sortas="b-updatedb">updatedb</primary></indexterm>
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<para>updates the <command>locate</command> database. It scans
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the entire file system (including other file systems that are currently mounted,
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unless told not to) and puts every file name it finds in the database.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="xargs">
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<term><command>xargs</command></term>
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<listitem>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils xargs"><primary sortas="b-xargs">xargs</primary></indexterm>
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<para>can be used to apply a given command to a list of files.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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