finding things in unix

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

John Esak propounded (on Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 01:07:31AM -0400):
| JPR wrote
| 
| > their location.  It also isn't going to report a directory.
| > 
| > 
| > My own predilection is to an install an alias which I call 'gb' as a
| > mnemonic for 'grep backup'; it takes one argument to use as a 
| > pattern to
| > seek in the most recent BackupEDGE master listing.
| 
| 
| That's a great idea... I think I had something like this year's ago, too.
| That is a hell of a lot quicker than "find" would be.  And, true, there are
| too many limitations to type.
| 
| John Claude does a lot of things like this with "look" in other history
| files, or ad-hoc files.  Of course, he would have it names something like
| "echq" or such.   :-)

'look' needs  to delve into a sorted list...


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JP