On Mar 17, 2011, at 6:22 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote: > Since you're thinking in this direction you may discover locate is faster > than find though it has issues of it's own as well as opportunity. See more > at man locate. Locate searches a pre-built database rather than crawling your > file system.
Yes, and while locate is great for older files, is not really intended for detecting files which have appeared over the past day on a fileserver. By default, the locate DB is only rebuilt once a week under OS X.... Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
