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diff --git a/chapter06/findutils.xml b/chapter06/findutils.xml index 8d9f2407c..46045811c 100644 --- a/chapter06/findutils.xml +++ b/chapter06/findutils.xml @@ -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> |