1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
|
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
%general-entities;
]>
<sect1 id="ch-system-findutils" role="wrap">
<title>Findutils-&findutils-version;</title>
<?dbhtml filename="findutils.html"?>
<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>
<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>0.1 SBU</seg><seg>5.9 MB</seg></seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils,
Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Findutils</title>
<para>Prepare Findutils for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib/locate \
--localstatedir=/var/lib/locate</userinput></screen>
<para>The <parameter>localstatedir</parameter> directive above 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>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
<para>To test the results, issue:
<userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
<para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
<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><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
<?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
<varlistentry id="bigram">
<term><command>bigram</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Was formerly used to produce <command>locate</command> databases</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils bigram"><primary sortas="b-bigram">bigram</primary></indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="code">
<term><command>code</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Was formerly used to produce <command>locate</command>
databases; it is the ancestor of <command>frcode</command>.</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils code"><primary sortas="b-code">code</primary></indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<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="frcode">
<term><command>frcode</command></term>
<listitem>
<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 four to
five.</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils frcode"><primary sortas="b-frcode">frcode</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>
|
