On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:17:59PM +0200, Maxim Veksler wrote: > On 2/12/07, Gilboa Davara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >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. > > > >What about $ file -name <FILE> ? > > > > Real situation: I've just done a major build which created 5th level > directories hierarchy (debug/Main/Engine/Simple/he). Now I wish to run > some quick shell test to see if anywhere inside all of this directory > jungle a file named libHelpTest.a was build.
If you're using zsh, you only need $ ls **/libHelpTest.a (I wonder whether Nadav has already sent this answer to the list...) -- Dan Kenigsberg http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~danken ICQ 162180901 ================================================================= 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]
