27 Jan
2011
27 Jan
'11
7:56 a.m.
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