On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 08:41:57AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mi, 28 iul 10, 16:10:38, Jordon Bedwell wrote: > > On 7/28/10 4:03 PM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > > >On 07/28/2010 04:11 PM, Jordon Bedwell wrote: > > >> > > >>find / |grep libraptor > > > > > >Perhaps you wanted find's -name option? find / -name 'libraptor*' > > > > I personally prefer to grep over find, but to each their own :P as > > each have their own methods to do things that ultimately lead to the > > same solution. > > Assuming very long output of find, grepping over it is not efficient. > Besides, the file you search might be quite early found and one can > interrupt the search, while with your approach one has to wait until > both find and finish.
If you stop it with ctrl-C, both find and grep get interrupted and stop, right? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best tzaf...@debian.org | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100729095032.gv17...@pear.tzafrir.org.il