Looking for a good portable linux system
Mark Komarinski
mkomarinski at wayga.org
Wed Dec 22 09:38:01 EST 2004
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 09:05:33AM -0500, Cole Tuininga wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 07:14 -0500, Travis Roy wrote:
> > >
> > > Or:
> > >
> > > slocate -i mozilla
> >
> > or "find / | grep -i mozilla"
>
> Tell you what, we'll time the two and see which comes back quicker. 8)
Under normal circumstances, you'd be right. But the concern here is the
overhead of (s)locate building its database at the wrong time. If the
concern of waiting a few additional seconds or remembering the command line
for find outweighs your system's hard drive churning away in the middle of
a presentation, then stick with find.
-Mark
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