On 01/11/2017 07:44 PM, Pew, Curtis G wrote:
I would be surprised if anything you put together like this would perform any
better than `find’. Searching large Unix directories is typically pretty slow
no matter how you go about it. (If you’re still using HFS that’s probably
particularly true; I understand that zFS directory searches are faster.)
Yes, I think any other method would suffer the same performance
limitations as find. The advantage of find is that (from memoy) it is
smart enough to tell you where it found each file, while something like
ls -R ... | grep ... is liable to give you a list of filenames with no
information about their actual location.
This question does illustrate why I dislike the IBM suggestion of
individual automounted home directories so much - if your search
includes automounted directories, every single one must be mounted. If
you reckon directory seaches are slow, try HSM recalling filesystems one
at a time...
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Andrew Rowley
Black Hill Software
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