Posts Tagged 'updatedb'

Usually when I have to find a file, I use a find and a grep command together – because I still haven’t learnt to use find properly. This is what I do:

find -L . | grep <name>

But this process is usually slow as it traverses the whole directory structure recursively following the symlinks to find all the files and then greps for the name that I need.

Recently I learnt about ...