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From: aledm@grant.ncd.com (Aled Morris)
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Subject: Re: Locate/fast-find (Was: Re: Shared lib X for 386bsd?)
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Date: 13 Jan 93 17:56:01 GMT
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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

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