On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, 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.
locate <FILE>
You can alias locate to actually use grep which allows using regexps for
finding things in locate output directly. E.g. in my case this is set
to:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/locate.orig /|grep -E "$*"
This can be made nicer but it's good enough.
Peter
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