Tim Connors wrote at about 11:15:31 +1000 on Thursday, September 29, 2011: > On Wed, 28 Sep 2011, Timothy J Massey wrote: > > > Arnold Krille <arn...@arnoldarts.de> wrote on 09/28/2011 11:20:57 AM: > > > > > > I'm sure someone with more shell-fu will give you a much better > > command > > > > line (and I look forward to learning something!). > > > > > > Here you are: > > > > > > find <path_where_to_start> -iname <string_to_search> > ... > > > Using find you will realize that its rather slow and has your disk > > rattling > > > away. Better to use the indexing services, for example locate: > > > > > > locate <string_to_search> > > > > Yeah, that's great if you update the locate database (as you mention). On > > a backup server, with millions of files and lots of work to do pretty much > > around the clock? That's one of the first things I disable! So no > > locate. > > Hmmm. > > When I want to search for a file (half the time I don't even know what > machine or from what time period, so I have to search the entire pool), I > look at the mounted backuppcfs fuse filesystem (I mount onto /snapshots): > https://svn.ulyssis.org/repos/sipa/backuppc-fuse/backuppcfs.pl
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