Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 15:36:17 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net> To: Julian Elischer <julian@freefall.cdrom.com>, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: amazingly annoying Message-ID: <199504282136.PAA05063@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: Julian Elischer <julian@freefall.cdrom.com> "amazingly annoying" (Apr 28, 1:11pm)
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> (just wasted another 30 minutes doing 'find' on freefall AGAIN > geeze you'd think I'd have learned by now that there is nothing useful here) 'locate' is your friend. Since we run a find on all the directories every night which caches the information on what's available on freefall, at most you are 24 hours out of date with the files on freefall. Instead of 'find / -name foo'*' -print' you can do a 'locate foo | more' which does the same thing. Nate
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