On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Always Learning wrote: > Thanks for the explanation. Now I know why locate never usually worked > for me - it hadn't updated. > > find is fast, especially when I restrict the search paths.
But locate is faster still, in all but the smallest of cases. I'd only tend to use find if I had reason to think that changes had made the locate database invalid. locate with a regexp is plain good and fast. jh _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
