On 2/12/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Monday 12 February 2007, Maxim Veksler wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Someone at work told me that doing "du -a <DIR>|grep <FILE>" is faster >> then "find <DIR>|grep <FILE>". I've measured, it doesn't looks quite >> so. It did OTOH got me wondering what's the quickest way to answer if >> file existed in a hierarchy of directories. >> >> Assuming I'm not interested in any information besides the answer if >> file existing or not. I would only need to access the directory >> listing and not the inode of each file, right? Is there some utility >> that can do this very simple search efficiently? >> > > Why not use a find predicate for that? Why not write a COBOL application that uses a FORTRAN subroutine to do that ? Peter
Hmmm, OK. Please CC me on your first beta announcement. -- Cheers, Maxim Veksler "Free as in Freedom" - Do u GNU ? ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
