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  7. <sect1 id="ch-system-findutils" role="wrap">
  8. <?dbhtml filename="findutils.html"?>
  9. <sect1info condition="script">
  10. <productname>findutils</productname>
  11. <productnumber>&findutils-version;</productnumber>
  12. <address>&findutils-url;</address>
  13. </sect1info>
  14. <title>Findutils-&findutils-version;</title>
  15. <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils">
  16. <primary sortas="a-Findutils">Findutils</primary>
  17. </indexterm>
  18. <sect2 role="package">
  19. <title/>
  20. <para>The Findutils package contains programs to find files. These programs
  21. are provided to recursively search through a directory tree and to
  22. create, maintain, and search a database (often faster than the recursive
  23. find, but unreliable if the database has not been recently updated).</para>
  24. <segmentedlist>
  25. <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
  26. <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
  27. <seglistitem>
  28. <seg>&findutils-ch6-sbu;</seg>
  29. <seg>&findutils-ch6-du;</seg>
  30. </seglistitem>
  31. </segmentedlist>
  32. </sect2>
  33. <sect2 role="installation">
  34. <title>Installation of Findutils</title>
  35. <para>Prepare Findutils for compilation:</para>
  36. <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var/lib/locate</userinput></screen>
  37. <variablelist>
  38. <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
  39. <varlistentry>
  40. <term><parameter>--localstatedir</parameter></term>
  41. <listitem>
  42. <para>This option changes the location of the <command>locate</command>
  43. database to be in <filename class="directory">/var/lib/locate</filename>,
  44. which is FHS-compliant.</para>
  45. </listitem>
  46. </varlistentry>
  47. </variablelist>
  48. <para>Compile the package:</para>
  49. <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
  50. <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
  51. <screen><userinput remap="test">chown -Rv tester .
  52. su tester -c "PATH=$PATH make check"</userinput></screen>
  53. <para>Install the package:</para>
  54. <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
  55. <para revision="sysv">Some of the scripts in the LFS-Bootscripts package
  56. depend on <command>find</command>. As <filename
  57. class="directory">/usr</filename> may not be available during the early
  58. stages of booting, this program needs to be on the root partition. The
  59. <command>updatedb</command> script also needs to be modified to correct an
  60. explicit path:</para>
  61. <para revision="systemd"> Some packages in BLFS and beyond expect the
  62. <command>find</command> program in <filename
  63. class="directory">/bin</filename>, so make sure it's placed there:</para>
  64. <screen><userinput remap="install">mv -v /usr/bin/find /bin
  65. sed -i 's|find:=${BINDIR}|find:=/bin|' /usr/bin/updatedb</userinput></screen>
  66. </sect2>
  67. <sect2 id="contents-findutils" role="content">
  68. <title>Contents of Findutils</title>
  69. <segmentedlist>
  70. <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
  71. <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
  72. <seglistitem>
  73. <seg>find, locate, updatedb, and xargs</seg>
  74. <seg>/var/lib/locate</seg>
  75. </seglistitem>
  76. </segmentedlist>
  77. <variablelist>
  78. <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
  79. <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
  80. <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
  81. <varlistentry id="find">
  82. <term><command>find</command></term>
  83. <listitem>
  84. <para>Searches given directory trees for files matching the specified
  85. criteria</para>
  86. <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils find">
  87. <primary sortas="b-find">find</primary>
  88. </indexterm>
  89. </listitem>
  90. </varlistentry>
  91. <varlistentry id="locate">
  92. <term><command>locate</command></term>
  93. <listitem>
  94. <para>Searches through a database of file names and reports the names
  95. that contain a given string or match a given pattern</para>
  96. <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils locate">
  97. <primary sortas="b-locate">locate</primary>
  98. </indexterm>
  99. </listitem>
  100. </varlistentry>
  101. <varlistentry id="updatedb">
  102. <term><command>updatedb</command></term>
  103. <listitem>
  104. <para>Updates the <command>locate</command> database; it scans the
  105. entire file system (including other file systems that are currently
  106. mounted, unless told not to) and puts every file name it finds into
  107. the database</para>
  108. <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils updatedb">
  109. <primary sortas="b-updatedb">updatedb</primary>
  110. </indexterm>
  111. </listitem>
  112. </varlistentry>
  113. <varlistentry id="xargs">
  114. <term><command>xargs</command></term>
  115. <listitem>
  116. <para>Can be used to apply a given command to a list of files</para>
  117. <indexterm zone="ch-system-findutils xargs">
  118. <primary sortas="b-xargs">xargs</primary>
  119. </indexterm>
  120. </listitem>
  121. </varlistentry>
  122. </variablelist>
  123. </sect2>
  124. </sect1>