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Article #9906Setting the record straight on SunOS 4.0 'fastfind'
From: Ned Danieley
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1988 20:54
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1988 20:54
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(To the theme from "The Twilight Zone") Do de do do, do de do do. It turns out that, at least under 3.5 [[ as early as 3.2, actually --wnl ]], 'find' allowed (but Sun did not document) the 4.3 behaviour of find filename which depends on running /usr/lib/find/updatedb periodically; this sets up a database of names, allowing 'find' to work VERY quickly. I found this about a year ago, and told Sun; I think it even made it into an STB. Note that /usr/lib/find exists under 4.0, but that the man page still doesn't mention it, and that find filename only works as find '*filename*' As jbm says, Sun knows about it, and has acknowledged that it is a bug. It seems to work under Sys4-3.2, so you probably could get 'find' from that release and have it work. Ned Danieley (ndd@sunbar.mc.duke.edu) Basic Arrhythmia Laboratory Box 3140, Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC 27710 (919) 684-6807 or 684-6942
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: ndd@sunbar.mc.duke.edu (Ned Danieley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Setting the record straight on SunOS 4.0 'fastfind' Message-ID: <8812161559.AA09132@sunbar.mc.duke.edu> Date: 29 Dec 88 20:54:17 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 28 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Fri, 16 Dec 88 10:59:32 EST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 77, message 4 of 14