To: "Paul Howarth" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 9:23 PM
Subject: Faster Searching !
Hi Guruz ,
I want to ask about the fastest searching command as i am using to search SUID/GUID files in / directory . script given as:
ls -l /usr/bin | awk '/^-.....[s]/ { print $3, $9 }'
or using 'find' utility as below
find /usr/bin -perm +6000
now the question is Which works faster, script without 'find' or with it? and How do you know?
thankx.
Run each command under /usr/bin/time:
/usr/bin/time ls -l /usr/bin | awk '/^-.....[s]/ { print $3, $9 }'/usr/bin/time find /usr/bin -perm +6000
My bets are on the find command - the ls command relies on a pipe to a completely different command, which is going to slow the whole process down a bunch.
Thomas
