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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
+  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
+  %general-entities;
+]>
+
+<sect1 id="ch-system-findutils" role="wrap">
+  <?dbhtml filename="findutils.html"?>
+
+  <sect1info condition="script">
+    <productname>findutils</productname>
+    <productnumber>&findutils-version;</productnumber>
+    <address>&findutils-url;</address>
+  </sect1info>
+
+  <title>Findutils-&findutils-version;</title>
+
+  <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. These programs
+    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>
+      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
+
+      <seglistitem>
+        <seg>&findutils-ch6-sbu;</seg>
+        <seg>&findutils-ch6-du;</seg>
+      </seglistitem>
+    </segmentedlist>
+
+  </sect2>
+
+  <sect2 role="installation">
+    <title>Installation of Findutils</title>
+
+    <para>Prepare Findutils for compilation:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var/lib/locate</userinput></screen>
+
+    <variablelist>
+      <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
+
+      <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>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+    </variablelist>
+
+    <para>Compile the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="test">chown -Rv tester .
+su tester -c "PATH=$PATH make check"</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>Install the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para revision="sysv">Some of the scripts in the LFS-Bootscripts package
+    depend on <command>find</command>.  As <filename
+    class="directory">/usr</filename> may not be available during the early
+    stages of booting, this program needs to be on the root partition.  The
+    <command>updatedb</command> script also needs to be modified to correct an
+    explicit path:</para>
+
+    <para revision="systemd"> Some packages in BLFS and beyond expect the
+    <command>find</command> program in <filename
+    class="directory">/bin</filename>, so make sure it's placed there:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="install">mv -v /usr/bin/find /bin
+sed -i 's|find:=${BINDIR}|find:=/bin|' /usr/bin/updatedb</userinput></screen>
+
+  </sect2>
+
+  <sect2 id="contents-findutils" role="content">
+    <title>Contents of Findutils</title>
+
+    <segmentedlist>
+      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
+      <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
+
+      <seglistitem>
+        <seg>find, locate, updatedb, and xargs</seg>
+        <seg>/var/lib/locate</seg>
+      </seglistitem>
+
+    </segmentedlist>
+
+    <variablelist>
+      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
+      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
+      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
+
+      <varlistentry id="find">
+        <term><command>find</command></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Searches given directory trees for files matching the specified
+          criteria</para>
+          <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils find">
+            <primary sortas="b-find">find</primary>
+          </indexterm>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry id="locate">
+        <term><command>locate</command></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>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 locate">
+            <primary sortas="b-locate">locate</primary>
+          </indexterm>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry id="updatedb">
+      <term><command>updatedb</command></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <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 into
+          the database</para>
+          <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils updatedb">
+            <primary sortas="b-updatedb">updatedb</primary>
+          </indexterm>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry id="xargs">
+        <term><command>xargs</command></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Can be used to apply a given command to a list of files</para>
+          <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils xargs">
+            <primary sortas="b-xargs">xargs</primary>
+          </indexterm>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+    </variablelist>
+
+  </sect2>
+
+</sect1>