From: Ad 


> This seems verbose. But the -name applies to what comes after it, right?
> So how could one create an alias or script that would just take a path
> and a string? e.g.:
>
> ff . "book*"
>

Use the surprisingly named command "alias".

Simply set the various commands & their "Randall friendly"
version into a startup script e.g. bashrc et voila.



>>
>> The '.' refers to the current directory. Use '/' to start from root.
>>
>> When I last investigated 'find' (a couple of years ago), I discovered
>> that
>> you should use 'locate' or better still 'slocate'. These are much faster,
>> but depend on an index file being maintained.
>
> So how to update the database for locate and slocate?
>

updatedb run as root. I tend to shove it into my "over night
bookkeeping script" run via cron.


Adam

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