-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 07:26:59AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
[...] > I said I had "a command line outlook", not that I was strongly > anti-GUI. > See, no " <dons flame-proof armour> required ;/ > Seriously though, I think the default action of Mate's "Find" menu > option should have been that of "locate" or "find". > In this case "find" was more useful. There was a directory with > improper permissions set. "locate" ignored it but "find" reported > that it could not be searched. To assess a tool you gotta understand how it works :) Find recursively traverses current directory structure. Hence its advantages: - precise (i.e. based on current status, not on some past indexing run) - comprehensive (nearly everything about files is queryable) and its disadvantages - excruciatingly slow on big file systems Locate queries a database of file paths which is refreshed at some regular intervals (if you hear your computer's tummy rumoring and catch a glimpse of "updatedb" in the process list: this is it). Hence its advantages: - blazingly fast and its disadvantages - deferred (last updatedb) - only knows about file paths I tend to use both (sometimes even combined). Regards - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlh045IACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbpMwCeM1Y7fk5+pKXM/GMrBgBI3XSc lNoAnjq63dni1qEUMPSoEUESqsXvDT1Q =ZcrJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
