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Re: ls -alR with wd?



Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:18:58AM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote:
>   
>> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:58:58PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote:
>>>   
>>>
>>> Others already mentioned location. I'll just note that 'find' and 'ls
>>> -lR' should have comparable speeds. find's output should be nicer to
>>> parse.
>>>
>>> A single 'find' is normally enough to cache the relevant directories.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Well, you first need to do _one_ find before for both to have the same
>> speed. That's the problem. Locate seems to do what I want.
>>     
>
> That is, unless you're not really sure the relevant sub-tree is
> up-to-date and run updatedb, which is equivalent to 'find /' (with
> proper excludes).
>
>   
Ok. Thanks for this confirmation.

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