[Tfug] When RTFM is not enough

[Jeffrey Denton]

On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Bowie J. Poag wrote:

> If anyone tells you to use "find", double up your fist and just pound the
> snot out of them.  When they lose consciousness, drag their body into a
> dumpster, dump some gasoline into it, and set them on fire. Repeat as
> needed.

I aggree that find is resource intensive and shouldn't be used when you are
looking for something.  But there are some things that locate simply cannot do:

find / \( -perm -4000 -o -perm -2000 \) -type f -ls &> s_id.out
find / -perm -2 '!' -type l -ls | egrep -v "dev" &> writable.out
find / -nouser -o -nogroup -ls &> unowned.out
find / -size +10000k &> bigfile.out

touch -t 07060900 tmp_find
find / -newer tmp_find -ls &> newer.out
. . .
. . .


dentonj

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