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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard
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On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Amankwah <amankwah7@gmail.com> wrote:
> How about this?
>
> find -name foo*.txt ?

Why would you scan the entire file system when you have an speedy index?