[CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster
John Hodrien
J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk
Thu Jan 27 07:56:19 UTC 2011
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Always Learning wrote:
> Thanks for the explanation. Now I know why locate never usually worked
> for me - it hadn't updated.
>
> find is fast, especially when I restrict the search paths.
But locate is faster still, in all but the smallest of cases. I'd only tend
to use find if I had reason to think that changes had made the locate database
invalid. locate with a regexp is plain good and fast.
jh
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