On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 22:22, Ankit Jain wrote: > Which is more efficient? /if both perform the same > work and are not different then why shoudl we have 2 ?
As far as I know, locate is based on a database storing locations of file. It doesnot search physically throughout the directory hierarchy. So it is many a time faster. But you have to update the database periodically with an "updatedb" command. Otherwise even error locations may be the result. Find doesnt depend on any such databases. It searches throughout the directory hierarchy. This case results are always more reliable, but mostly slow. It can be seen by "finding" a file from the "/" and "locating" the same. I think that trade-off enough a reason!! -- With regards, Jagadeesh Bhaskar P R&D Engineer HCL Infosystems Ltd Pondicherry INDIA - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
