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diff --git a/chapter08/findutils.xml b/chapter08/findutils.xml index c37f3aab0..c12452668 100644 --- a/chapter08/findutils.xml +++ b/chapter08/findutils.xml @@ -23,10 +23,12 @@ <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 + <para>The Findutils package contains programs to find files. Programs + are provided to search through all the files in a directory tree and to create, maintain, and search a database (often faster than the recursive - find, but is unreliable if the database has not been recently updated).</para> + find, but unreliable unless the database has been updated recently). + Findutils also supplies the <command>xargs</command> program, which + can be used to run a specified command on each file selected by a search.</para> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle> @@ -63,9 +65,9 @@ esac</userinput></screen> <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> + <para>This option moves the <command>locate</command> + database to <filename class="directory">/var/lib/locate</filename>, + which is the FHS-compliant location.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> |