On 3/18/11 10:18 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote:
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,
It is entirely configurable and you can build as many DB's as you like and place
them anywhere you like. It's Unix - you're allowed to think.
"...it has issues of it's own as well as opportunity".
dp
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