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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA6607 ; Mon, 11 Jan 93 14:30:47 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!uunet!psinntp!lupine!grant!aledm From: aledm@grant.ncd.com (Aled Morris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Locate/fast-find (Was: Re: Shared lib X for 386bsd?) Message-ID: <15847@lupine.ncd.com> Date: 13 Jan 93 17:56:01 GMT References: <1993Jan8.050552.11116@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> <fXOtCvR@quack.sac.ca.us> Sender: news@NCD.COM Organization: Network Computing Devices, Mt. View, CA, USA Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: grant In article <fXOtCvR@quack.sac.ca.us>, dfox@quack.sac.ca.us (David Fox) writes: > >Anyway, rather than asking the net where a file in my own filessytem > >is I'd run a brute force 'find / -print | grep xterm'. :-) > > In article <EWERLID.93Jan8222423@ida.docs.uu.se> you write: > Actually, the '-print' is superflous, just ' find . | grep xterm' should > work. And, that's pretty fast in finding files, too. Emm...isn't `find / -name xterm -print' simpler? Or `find / -name \*xerm\* -print'? Or are we trying to stick religiously to the toolset philosophy? :-) Aled aledm@ncd.com Network Computing Devices Inc. (415)694 4543 350 North Bernardo Avenue, Mountain View, CA 94043