On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 09:58 -0500, Brian Mathis wrote: > You may not be aware of the "locate" command? Nightly there is a job > that runs (updatedb) that scans the disk and saves file locations. > Locate searches this database instead of you have to do a 'find'. The > only thing it won't get are files that were added since the last > 'updatedb' run. You can run that whenever you want to update the db, > or use find in those cases. 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. -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU.