[linux-help] Re: ls

[Greg House <ghouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 02 Sep 2000, Bruce wrote:
> By the way, I have found locate is pretty handy.  Locate -u will store all 
> the files so
> locate will quickly find a file.  Using find requires the system to search 
> the entire
> disk for each search.

I wouldn't expect find to have to search the entire file system for queries
that didn't start at the root directory (/). It should be able to just read the
directory files from the starting directory, since find is purely a
directory-based operation.

Greg

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