Neil Greenwood wrote: > On 06/08/07, Jim Kissel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> find /your/path/to/a/directory -name '*.lck' -print >> >> Find trawls the files system but appears to cache when re-run with a >> short (hours) time. I've ever used locate. It has a db where it >> 'locates' files. BTY, if you are using find on directories that you >> don't "own", you may need to sudo find has the errors it produces when >> it doesn't have permission to read a directory can overwhelm the actual >> output of any search. >> > > I'm posting without testing, so I may be wrong. > > I wouldn't have thought that find would cache the results. It's > probably the disk cache for the file system that speeds things up.
I too believe it the file system/disk that is doing the caching. Never considered that anyone would splice a cache onto to find! > > Hwyl, > Neil. > -- Simple effective migration to Open Source based computing Jim Kissel Open Source Migrations Limited w: http://www.osml.eu e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: +44(0) 8703 301044 m: +44(0) 7976 411 679 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
