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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA6612 ; Mon, 11 Jan 93 15:34:09 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!olivea!isc-br!frigg!carlp From: carlp@frigg.isc-br.com (Carl Paukstis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Locate/fast-find (Was: Re: Shared lib X for 386bsd?) Message-ID: <carlp.726981966@frigg> Date: 14 Jan 93 03:26:06 GMT References: <1993Jan8.050552.11116@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> <fXOtCvR@quack.sac.ca.us> <15847@lupine.ncd.com> Sender: news@isc-br.isc-br.com (news user) Organization: ISC-Bunker Ramo, An Olivetti Company Lines: 32 Nntp-Posting-Host: frigg.isc-br.com aledm@grant.ncd.com (Aled Morris) writes: >In article <fXOtCvR@quack.sac.ca.us>, dfox@quack.sac.ca.us (David Fox) writes: >> >Anyway, rather than asking the net where a file in my own filessytem >> >is I'd run a brute force 'find / -print | grep xterm'. :-) >> >> In article <EWERLID.93Jan8222423@ida.docs.uu.se> you write: >> Actually, the '-print' is superflous, just ' find . | grep xterm' should >> work. And, that's pretty fast in finding files, too. >Emm...isn't `find / -name xterm -print' simpler? >Or `find / -name \*xerm\* -print'? I grew up on SYSV, so it took me by surprise that -print isn't required. I didn't believe it until this message caused me to telnet to ref.tfs.com and try it. Something new every day... Anyhow - on both my home BSD system and some heavily-used SYSV development systems I administer here at work, I run a little cron task every night that does a "find / -print >/ALLfiles". I've aliased "locate" to a bash function that greps /ALLfiles. It ain't up-to-the-minute, but it beats fumbling around and waiting for interactive "find" sessions. The only disadvantage is that it's a pretty big file (couple of megabytes at times), I find it to be worth it. If somebody already suggested this, pardon me. I haven't followed the thread. -- Carl Paukstis, RRR&RSG | "If we were directed from Washington Olivetti North America / Spokane, WA | when to sow and when to reap, we would Mail: carlp@mail.spk.olivetti.com | soon want for bread." or: ...uunet!oliveb!isc-br!carlp | - Thomas Jefferson