On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 4:46 PM, James Youngman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Peng Yu <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm wondering if there is a way to speed up find by create some kind >> of indexing. When the directory structure is large, find becomes slow. > > That is what locate(1) does. Both are part of findutils.
I know 'locate'. But I don't know that it have all the functionality that 'find' offers except indexing. What functionality are available in 'find' but not in 'locate'? -- Regards, Peng
