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Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 23:08:10 +0200
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From: Sergios <sergios@hol.gr>
Subject: find etc/
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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 ....

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