Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!mhres!jv
From: jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Finding Files
Message-ID: <1503@mhres.mh.nl>
Date: 12 Dec 87 16:08:12 GMT
References: <205700003@prism> <4441@ihlpg.ATT.COM>
Organization: Multihouse N.V., The Netherlands
Lines: 21
Summary: looking everywhere

In article <205700003@prism> billc@prism.UUCP writes:
>
>	Right now, to find a file somewhere under my current directory,
>	I use the following alias:
>
>	    alias	where	"find \$cwd -name \!* -exec echo {} \;"
> .. etc ..

On our systems, a small cron script executes every night the following
command:

	find / -print > /dirfile

Finding a file somewhere can be done by grepping in the /dirfile.
Of course, the contents of /dirfile are not really up-to-date, but this is
just a minor drawback. "find" on the whole system (including mounted disks)
takes more than an hour, a grep in /dirfile much less than a minute.
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