[K12OSN] find command

[Nils Breunese]

Roger wrote:

> On 8/28/07, Huck <dhuckaby at paasda.org> wrote: 'find' is likely much  
> more powerful..
>
> but I use 'updatedb'...and then 'locate <filename or partial with
> wildcard>'...
> Yeah, I use locate often too.
> find is for when I want to do something with the files after  
> they're found.

Why wouldn't you be able to do something with the files that locate  
eh... locates for you? Piping the result into xargs is pretty powerful.

find is more flexible than locate though, you can for instance tell  
it to only look in a particular part of your filesystem, check for  
certain permissions, times, etc. and it is always returning actually  
existing files. locate searches a database (which is updated by  
running updatedb), while find searches the live filesystem.

Nils Breunese.
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