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Re: Interesting utilities

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jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> writes:

> I am developing in the Mac OS X (10.7) system, and it has some
> nice features that I hadn't seen in any windows/unix system.
>
> One of them is the "mdfind" utility that is incredibly powerful:
>
> mdfind some-identifier
>
> will look in the whole machine for "some-identifier" and write
> you in standard output the name of all files that have a
> match. It is like
>
> grep -R "some-identifier" /*.*
>
> but it comes back in seconds instead of hours like grep.
>
> It is very useful, and I never found something even remotely
> equivalent under linux/sun os

What about `locate' from GNU Findutils?

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Interesting utilities jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-10-11 11:57 +0200
  Re: Interesting utilities Roberto Waltman <usenet@rwaltman.com> - 2011-10-15 00:35 -0400
    Re: Interesting utilities jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-10-15 13:06 +0200
      Re: Interesting utilities Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-10-15 10:26 -0700
      [OT] Interesting utilities Roberto Waltman <usenet@rwaltman.com> - 2011-10-15 16:14 -0400
      Re: Interesting utilities Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-10-16 01:24 +0000
        Re: Interesting utilities jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-10-16 09:45 +0200
        Re: Interesting utilities jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-10-16 14:05 +0200
          Re: Interesting utilities jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-10-16 14:39 +0200
            Re: Interesting utilities Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-10-17 16:38 +0000
  Re: Interesting utilities Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-10-16 01:18 +0000
    Re: Interesting utilities Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-10-16 14:34 +1300
  Re: Interesting utilities XeCycle <xecycle@gmail.com> - 2011-10-16 10:42 +0800
    Re: Interesting utilities Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-10-16 03:53 +0000
      Re: Interesting utilities XeCycle <xecycle@gmail.com> - 2011-10-16 21:25 +0800

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