5.21. Installing Findutils-4.1.20

5.21.1. Contents of Findutils

The Findutils package contains programs to find files, either on-the-fly (by doing a live recursive search through directories and only showing files that match the specifications) or by searching through a database.

Installed programs: bigram, code, find, frcode, locate, updatedb and xargs

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5.21.3. Findutils Installation Dependencies

Findutils depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.

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5.21.5. Installing Findutils

Prepare Findutils for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/tools

Compile the package:

make 

This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, the following command will do so:

make check

And install the package:

make install