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From: hartman@ide.com (Robert Hartman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: directory "indexer"
Keywords: search,directory,index
Message-ID: <1990Aug15.164240.28344@ide.com>
Date: 15 Aug 90 16:42:40 GMT
References: <335@nih-csl.nih.gov>
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In article <335@nih-csl.nih.gov> tpersky@alw.nih.gov (Ted Persky) writes:
>It has come to my attention that our staff on the whole spends
>a great deal of time during the day searching for that one
>certain file in a large directory tree.  For example, try finding
>a certain fragment of source code in the X11 distribution.
>The people in our lab always seem to be asking each other
>to help them locate the path name for "foo.c".

If you have the BSD version of find, you can use the "fast-find" feature to
build the database you want.

This wasn't documented very well in the BSD man page.  However, if you can
get at a copy of a Sun 4.x man page, it's documented there.

-r