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Old 10-08-2002
most effective search ?
what's the most efficient and effective search for a file in a dir ?

I see many guys use this

# find - print

or something as such ? and sometimes pipe it to something else ?

Is there a better way of using "grep" in all of this ?


thanks
simon2000
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Old 10-08-2002
It would probably be:
find . -print
which will tell you every file and directory in your current directory as well as each respective directories and subdirectories.

If you're looking for a specific name, you'd want something like:
find /path/to/whereever -name "*searchname*" -print
or better yet, use type to narrow it down to links, files, directories, etc...

Check the man page for your version of find to see lots of other options.
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Old 10-09-2002
Also, some platforms (I have only seen it on Linux) have the 'locate' command which can be less resource intensive.
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Old 10-09-2002
Also, in some OS's you will find the "which" command.
It searches for any kind of executables or files in the directories mentioned in the PATH & displays the absolute path of the file.

Usage :

#which "filename"
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