Stewart Stremler wrote:
begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 05:24:31PM -0700:
Anybody have a good suggestions for a file search tool for RHEL/CentOS
5? I'm looking for a binary package in order to avoid dependency hell.
Suggestions to use find/xargs/grep shall be flamed. To be fair, grep is
fine for my home directory. Problems that I really need the search
system for are things that are "over there, somewhere, in some strange
directory that I don't know a priori".
I would assume you're already using find/xargs/grep, and are unsatisfied
with that approach.
I found du -a to be quite convenient, though slow. So I just did du -a >
/du-a (as root). Then I just grep search </du-a (very fast) whenever I
want to find something. I can even do it as joe user. I just refresh the
dump once in a while. (The dump is about 10M.) This may be a kludge, but
it works (and it's *fast*). (And I haven't gotten myself accustomed to
find or xargs .)
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