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author | Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2004-05-03 10:59:46 +0000 |
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committer | Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2004-05-03 10:59:46 +0000 |
commit | 673b0d84ba9591e07c0bdf0ee49d92eba10f502c (patch) | |
tree | 129e27a1450727b440da4378e0117a468eb9c25e /chapter06/findutils.xml | |
parent | 287ea55da70ceb1f0990554b7db921d525fef816 (diff) |
* Merged newxml into HEAD
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diff --git a/chapter06/findutils.xml b/chapter06/findutils.xml index db2485a73..a6f2aa3d5 100644 --- a/chapter06/findutils.xml +++ b/chapter06/findutils.xml @@ -1,18 +1,26 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> +<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [ + <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent"> + %general-entities; +]> <sect1 id="ch-system-findutils" xreflabel="Findutils"> -<title>Installing Findutils-&findutils-version;</title> -<?dbhtml filename="findutils.html" dir="chapter06"?> +<title>Findutils-&findutils-version;</title> +<?dbhtml filename="findutils.html"?> -<para>The Findutils package contains programs to find files. The finding is -done either by doing a live recursive search through a directory tree, or by -consulting a previously set up database.</para> +<indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils"><primary sortas="a-Findutils">Findutils</primary></indexterm> -<screen>&buildtime; &findutils-time; -&diskspace; &findutils-compsize;</screen> +<para>The Findutils package contains programs to find files. Processes +are provided to recursively search through a directory tree and to +create, maintain and search a database (often faster than the recursive +find, but unreliable if the database has not been recently updated).</para> + +<screen>&buildtime; 0.2 SBU +&diskspace; 7.5 MB</screen> + +<para>Findutils installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, +Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.</para> -&aa-findutils-down; -&aa-findutils-dep; -<sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2> <sect2> <title>Installation of Findutils</title> @@ -29,17 +37,58 @@ database to be in /var/lib/misc, which is FHS-compliant.</para> <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen> -<para>To have the results tested, issue: +<para>To test the results, issue: <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para> -<para>And install the package:</para> +<para>Now install the package:</para> <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen> </sect2> -&aa-findutils-shortdesc; -&aa-findutils-desc; -</sect1> +<sect2 id="contents-findutils"><title>Contents of Findutils</title> + +<para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: bigram, code, find, frcode, +locate, updatedb and xargs</para> + +</sect2> + + +<sect2><title>Short descriptions</title> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils bigram"><primary sortas="b-bigram">bigram</primary></indexterm> +<para id="bigram"><command>bigram</command> was formerly used to produce locate +databases.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils code"><primary sortas="b-code">code</primary></indexterm> +<para id="code"><command>code</command> was formerly used to produce locate +databases. It is the ancestor of frcode.</para> +<indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils find"><primary sortas="b-find">find</primary></indexterm> +<para id="find"><command>find</command> searches given directory trees for files +matching the specified criteria.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils frcode"><primary sortas="b-frcode">frcode</primary></indexterm> +<para id="frcode"><command>frcode</command> is called by updatedb to compress the +list of file names. It uses front-compression, reducing the database size by a +factor of 4 to 5.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils locate"><primary sortas="b-locate">locate</primary></indexterm> +<para id="locate"><command>locate</command> 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 updatedb"><primary sortas="b-updatedb">updatedb</primary></indexterm> +<para id="updatedb"><command>updatedb</command> updates the locate 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 in the database.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils xargs"><primary sortas="b-xargs">xargs</primary></indexterm> +<para id="xargs"><command>xargs</command> can be used to apply a given command to +a list of files.</para> + +</sect2> + + + +</sect1> |