On Mi, 28 iul 10, 16:10:38, Jordon Bedwell wrote: > On 7/28/10 4:03 PM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > >On 07/28/2010 04:11 PM, Jordon Bedwell wrote: > >> > >>find / |grep libraptor > > > >Perhaps you wanted find's -name option? find / -name 'libraptor*' > > I personally prefer to grep over find, but to each their own :P as > each have their own methods to do things that ultimately lead to the > same solution.
Assuming very long output of find, grepping over it is not efficient. Besides, the file you search might be quite early found and one can interrupt the search, while with your approach one has to wait until both find and finish. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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