[Tfug] When RTFM is not enough

Bowie J. Poag tfug@tfug.org
Mon Jul 8 19:51:01 2002


Almost forgot this little nugget:

> Then do it.  I'm curious to see your answer and run it against the find
> command I showed you.  You can pettifog the issue all you want, but until
> you put code on the table, you're full of shit about ls being faster.

I never claimed ls was faster. Anywhere. What I argued is that building a file 
database ONCE, and then parsing information out of that database was vastly 
more efficient over the course of time faster than attempting to parse the 
same information out of a live filesystem.  The instant you perform more than 
one file search, my method will beat your method, hands down.

Cheers,
Bowie