Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 23:10:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Sergios <sergios@hol.gr> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: find etc/ Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961013230929.261K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> 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 .... Do you mean find . -name .... or find / -name? find . shoudn't take any time at all, while / should (find has to traverse ALL the directories!). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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