Installing Findutils-4.1.20

Estimated build time:           0.2 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  7.6 MB

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

Findutils Installation Dependencies

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

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