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minus-squarepalordrolap@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoIf you’re using find all the time, check to see if you have or can have some variant of locate installed. It indexes everything* on the system (* this is configurable) and can be queried with partial pathnames, even with regex, and it’s fast.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·8 months agoI use locate when I don’t know where the files are. Find has finer controls and can differentiate between regular files, links, directories, etc.
If you’re using
findall the time, check to see if you have or can have some variant oflocateinstalled. It indexes everything* on the system (* this is configurable) and can be queried with partial pathnames, even with regex, and it’s fast.I use locate when I don’t know where the files are. Find has finer controls and can differentiate between regular files, links, directories, etc.