On 12/1/13 7:51 AM, Dan Espen wrote:
Actually, your whole description is bizarre and I think wrong.
With a UNIX file, how do I NOT know where /var/log/messages is?
As long as you use a full path, you know where everything is.
I believe the issue some people are trying to address with a Unix
catalog is the case where you DON'T know the full path. For example,
suppose I have a recipe for Beef Stroganoff somewhere on my hard drive.
I know it's called "stroganoff.txt" but I don't remember where I put it.
I can certainly use the "find" command to locate the file, but my hard
disk is large with several hundred thousand files. "find" may take a
noticeable amount of time to locate the file.
Now suppose I have some sort of index file where the key is the
unqualified file name and the data is the path to that file. I can
search the index for my file name and it should quickly show me all the
locations where a file by that name is located. (Note that Windows has
had such a facility since at least XP.)
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