Re: Nevermind (was compiling without a terminal)

Also sprach Dallman Ross (Sun 10 Aug 02003 at 08:24:35PM +0200):
> On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 02:50:31PM -0500, David W. Tamkin wrote:
>
> > Scott suggested,
> >
> > > Be nice about it:
> > >
> > >    nice -n 19 find / -name make -print 2>/dev/null | xargs ls -l
> > That would spread the load over more time; for all I know that will
> > annoy them more because the process, while lighter, lives longer.
> >
> > But I did it another way:
> >
> > echo /*/make /*/*/make /*/*/*/make
> This is now academic given the evolution of the discussion, but
> I would do:
>
>  gfind / -name make -type f -maxdepth 3 -perm -50 2>/dev/null |
>  xargs -ls -ld
>
> The maxdepth thing is going to save you from descending through all
> levels of the tree.
>
> KrispyKream is wrong to say that the -ls option to find is more
> efficient; it is not.  Options to find are executed once per
> each file found.  Otoh, a pipe to xargs runs the ls command one
> time only, on all arguments found.  More efficient, by orders
> of magnitude!
For that matter, this is probably quickest and most efficient:

   ls -lL `find / ! -type d 2>/dev/null | grep '/make$'`

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