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Old 03-10-2008
Fastest way for searching the file
I want to search a file in fastest manner.
Presently I am using 'find' command. But it is taking around 15min for searching. Is there any other method through which I can do it fast?
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Old 03-10-2008
if you know where the file roughly is, you can specify the directory to find, instead of using /.
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Old 03-10-2008
Actually I want to do search from root / and find out the all path for that file.
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Old 03-10-2008
use locate or slocate, if present on your distro - this utility maintains an internal DB, does file indexing, thus search is much more faster.
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