[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