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From: ndd@duke.cs.duke.edu (Ned Danieley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Finding Files
Message-ID: <10800@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Date: 11 Dec 87 13:45:02 GMT
References: <205700003@prism> <91@dlag1.UUCP>
Reply-To: ndd@duke.UUCP (Ned D. Danieley)
Organization: Duke University, Durham NC
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In article <91@dlag1.UUCP> fm06222@dlag1.UUCP (Bill Wallace) writes:
>In article <205700003@prism>, billc@prism.UUCP writes:
>> 
>> 	    alias	where	"find \$cwd -name \!* -exec echo {} \;"
>> 
>> 	Question: Is there a better way to do this?
>
>On our copy of Unix (Gould UTX/32 - basically a BSD 4.3 clone) we have
>the option of establishing a database for find.  There's a script that
>we run out of crontab in the middle of the night to update the database
>daily, so the results are usually good enough.  The command is simple:
>
>	    find  
...

Note that this is also available under SunOs 3.3, although it is not
documented (at least, not in my release of 3.3).

Ned Danieley (ndd@sunbar.mc.duke.edu)
Basic Arrhythmia Laboratory
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC  27710
(919) 684-6807 or 684-6942
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