Cole Tuininga wrote:
On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 07:14 -0500, Travis Roy wrote:
Or:
slocate -i mozilla
or "find / | grep -i mozilla"
Tell you what, we'll time the two and see which comes back quicker. 8)
time locate 0047
0.12user 0.03system 0:00.14elapsed
time find / |grep 0047
0.42user 1.17system 2:52.24elapsed
time find / -name "0047*"
0.37user 0.64system 1:51.99elapsed
140 milliseconds vs. almost 2 or 3 minutes
Of course, you need both tools. locate only helps
if it has already built the locate database. Recent
stuff still needs find. And, I usually have an idea
where to start finding something, so I don't need
to search the whole file system.
time find /var/www/html/joesalter -name "0047*"
0.01user 0.04system 0:00.05elapsed
50 milliseconds vs. 140 milliseconds
So, which is quicker? ;-)
The answer, of course, is "it depends."
Anyways, *I* use both.
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