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6 <sect1 id="aa-findutils" xreflabel="Findutils">
7 <title>Findutils</title>
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10 <para>For installation instructions see <xref linkend="ch06-findutils"/>.</para>
12 <sect2><title>Official Download Location</title>
14 <literallayout>Findutils (&findutils-version;):
15 <ulink url="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/findutils/"/></literallayout>
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23 <sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
25 <para><command>bigram</command> was formerly used to produce locate
28 <para><command>code</command> was formerly used to produce locate
29 databases. It is the ancestor of frcode.</para>
31 <para><command>find</command> searches given directory trees for files
32 matching the specified criteria.</para>
34 <para><command>frcode</command> is called by updatedb to compress the
35 list of file names. It uses front-compression, reducing the database size by a
36 factor of 4 to 5.</para>
38 <para><command>locate</command> searches through a database of file names,
39 and reports the names that contain a given string or match a given pattern.</para>
41 <para><command>updatedb</command> updates the locate database. It scans
42 the entire filesystem (including other filesystems that are currently mounted,
43 unless told not to) and puts every file name it finds in the database.</para>
45 <para><command>xargs</command> can be used to apply a given command to
46 a list of files.</para>
52 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="findutils-deps.xml"/>