Re: Interactively finding file in a list of directories

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 09.03.2007 um 16:52 schrieb Denis Bueno:

> For example, assume there are 4 different files all named "find.jsp"
> in different directories, and I would like to find a particular one. I
> would do M-x find-resource, type "find", hit TAB, it I would see a
> list that looks something like:

There is an interface to the UNIX locate database (M-x locate RET  
pattern RET). Regularly, once a day or once a weekly, the whole disk  
is searched and all path names, files and directories, but no  
"special files," are recorded in a database or hash file. The command  
locate takes as argument a search pattern that allows a few  
metacharacters and looks up this pattern in the database, so it's  
much faster than find. Executing locate as a shell command, you could  
filter a bit more with grep what locate returns ...

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  Pete

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