Re: Speed up find

[Peng Yu]

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 4:46 PM, James Youngman <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm wondering if there is a way to speed up find by create some kind
>> of indexing. When the directory structure is large, find becomes slow.
>
> That is what locate(1) does.   Both are part of findutils.

I know 'locate'. But I don't know that it have all the functionality
that 'find' offers except indexing. What functionality are available
in 'find' but not in 'locate'?

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Regards,
Peng