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Re: /proc slows % echo /**//etc/r(/N)

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From: Juergen Christoffel <jc.zsh24a@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: /proc slows % echo /**/*/etc/r*(/N)
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2024 21:09:25 +0100
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On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 10:08:27AM -0800, Ray Andrews wrote:

But I'm holding out for a way of filtering out all those virtualdirectories. There's a few of them.


The heretic's solution: locate might be your friend, as it already built a
database of pathnames:

locate /etc/ | egrep -v '^/(proc|foo|bar|baz)'

      --jc

P.S. Or mdfind instead of locate on Macs. And maybe something else on
non-unixoid systems ...

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