Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 10:32:11 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: Sergios <sergios@hol.gr> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: find etc/ Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961014102819.298A-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19961013210810.009b891c@prometheus.hol.gr>
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On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Sergios wrote: > while we are at "find" can somebody explain me why a find . -name > "something" takes so long and if there is a way I can speed things up.....3 > minutes to find all "somestring" from / and this on a eide system with 64Mb > memory......a filesystem total of 1.2G .... > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ It takes that long because it works really hard. First, saying "a filesystem" would be inaccurate. Using find from / will search through *all* your file systems (including, for example, /tmp, any NFS filesystems you might have mounted, a cdrom if it's mounted, etc.). generally, if you want it to work faster, be more specific. For example, starting from /usr will make it faster, and will usually get all the files you want. Nadav
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