On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 15:56 +0200, Maxim Veksler wrote: > Hi, > > Someone at work told me that doing "du -a <DIR>|grep <FILE>" is faster > then "find <DIR>|grep <FILE>". I've measured, it doesn't looks quite > so. It did OTOH got me wondering what's the quickest way to answer if > file existed in a hierarchy of directories. > > Assuming I'm not interested in any information besides the answer if > file existing or not. I would only need to access the directory > listing and not the inode of each file, right? Is there some utility > that can do this very simple search efficiently? >
What about $ file -name <FILE> ? - Gilboa ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
