Hello, Andrew Gwozdziewycz wrote: >> $ time find / | grep 'bin' > /dev/null >> real 0m8.122s >> user 0m3.101s >> sys 0m2.519s >> >> $ time find / -regex 'bin' | grep >> real 0m18.795s >> user 0m3.394s >> sys 0m3.401s
I get a different story on Linux 3.12.4: [bpowers@fina ~]$ time find / 2>/dev/null | grep 'bin' > /dev/null real 0m2.316s user 0m1.145s sys 0m1.480s [bpowers@fina ~]$ time find / -regex 'bin' 2>/dev/null real 0m2.132s user 0m0.753s sys 0m1.362s [bpowers@fina ~]$ find --version | head -1 find (GNU findutils) 4.5.11 The find -regex is consistently about 10% faster. Not much, but also not > 2x slower like you see on OSX. yours, Bobby
