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Re: trying to optimize find's searches ...



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On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 05:23:55AM +0000, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> find works significantly faster when you bag various search patterns á la:
> 
> -iname '*.ko' -or -iname '*.bin' -or -iname '*.txt'
> 
> but, how could you do that using a batch strategy and setting a
> variable with many "-[i]name ... -or -[i]name ..." cases?
> 
> line-by-line strategies are too slow

[examples snipped: basically one complex find faster than three]

What exactly is what you want to do? I'd say "use the first strategy,
it's faster" -- but I have the feeling I haven't understood you
correctly.

Regards
- -- tomás
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