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authorManuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-12-21 19:38:32 +0000
committerManuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-12-21 19:38:32 +0000
commit3f0c882398e626cd92503b1bd964a32e89f818dc (patch)
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parentaaa3260c039e40d68545922b64199b039da6af7b (diff)
Removed the text in chapter 06.
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@@ -10,10 +10,6 @@
<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. 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>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
@@ -21,11 +17,6 @@ find, but unreliable if the database has not been recently updated).</para>
<seglistitem><seg>0.2 SBU</seg><seg>7.5 MB</seg></seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
-<segmentedlist>
-<segtitle>Findutils installation depends on</segtitle>
-<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils,
-Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed</seg></seglistitem>
-</segmentedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
@@ -36,10 +27,6 @@ Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed</seg></seglistitem>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib/locate \
--localstatedir=/var/lib/locate</userinput></screen>
-<para>The localstatedir directive above changes the location of the locate
-database to be in <filename class="directory">/var/lib/locate</filename>,
-which is FHS-compliant.</para>
-
<para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
@@ -56,74 +43,7 @@ which is FHS-compliant.</para>
<sect2 id="contents-findutils" role="content"><title>Contents of Findutils</title>
-<segmentedlist>
-<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
-<seglistitem><seg>bigram, code, find, frcode, locate, updatedb and xargs</seg></seglistitem>
-</segmentedlist>
-
-<variablelist><title>Short descriptions</title>
-
-<varlistentry id="bigram">
-<term><command>bigram</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils bigram"><primary sortas="b-bigram">bigram</primary></indexterm>
-<para>was formerly used to produce <command>locate</command> databases.</para>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="code">
-<term><command>code</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils code"><primary sortas="b-code">code</primary></indexterm>
-<para>was formerly used to produce <command>locate</command>
-databases. It is the ancestor of <command>frcode</command>.</para>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="find">
-<term><command>find</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils find"><primary sortas="b-find">find</primary></indexterm>
-<para>searches given directory trees for files matching the specified criteria.</para>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="frcode">
-<term><command>frcode</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils frcode"><primary sortas="b-frcode">frcode</primary></indexterm>
-<para>is called by <command>updatedb</command> to compress the list of file names. It uses
-front-compression, reducing the database size by a factor of 4 to 5.</para>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="locate">
-<term><command>locate</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils locate"><primary sortas="b-locate">locate</primary></indexterm>
-<para>searches through a database of file names,
-and reports the names that contain a given string or match a given pattern.</para>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="updatedb">
-<term><command>updatedb</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils updatedb"><primary sortas="b-updatedb">updatedb</primary></indexterm>
-<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 in the database.</para>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="xargs">
-<term><command>xargs</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils xargs"><primary sortas="b-xargs">xargs</primary></indexterm>
-<para>can be used to apply a given command to a list of files.</para>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-</variablelist>
+<para>See testing</para>
</sect2>