Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!umd5!uvaarpa!mcnc!duke!ndd 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 Lines: 24 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 ~