[vox-tech] Locate verses Find Was: resolving dependencies with XFree86-4.3.0-3

[Mike Simons]

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On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 04:19:52PM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote:
> What's really different about using locate than
>=20
> cd /
> find . -name something* -print

Jay,

  On a filesystem of any size the locate will return long before the
find (*hours* if there are large network file systems mounted) and=20
the find has a major negative impact on other processes/users of=20
the I/O system.


  On machines that don't have locate I write my own "locate", which
needs to change a bit from unix to unix but here's the general idea.

updatedb
=3D=3D=3D
#! /bin/sh

find / | gzip -9 > /tmp/all.files
=3D=3D=3D

locate
=3D=3D=3D
#! /bin/sh

zgrep "$@" /tmp/all.files
=3D=3D=3D

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