Idiots like myself are tired of typing out "find / -name ..." and waiting.
But rather, we like updatedb and locate, but find ourselves constantly
typing
"time updatedb" ... 2 minutes later ... "locate whatever",
and because we are not even willing to wait 1+ minutes for the crontab
we've even tried a little scripts like this:
#!/bin/bash
lockFile="/tmp/lock.${0#./}"
echo $$ > $lockFile
while [ -s $lockFile ]
do
updatedb
sleep 1
done
but it boggs a system down noticably.
Any ideas other than switching to BeOS?
Vernon
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