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From: refling AT comet DOT lbl DOT gov (Dr. John Refling)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: find41b slow behaviour.....
Date: 18 Jul 1996 00:38:19 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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When I run find.exe from the find41b.exe distribution in simtel.com/pub/simtelnet
/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu as follows:

find . -exec dir {} ;

it grinds away for a long time and never prints anything.
same with -echo {} ;

When I use 

find . -exec ls -a {} ; 

I get a few lines of files, then about 5 minutes of hard drive access, then
a few more lines of files, then 10 minutes of disk access, then I control-c
out.  It has listed about 100 out of 8000 files in 15 minutes.  This is on
a 150MHz pentium!

What am I missing here?

Thanks.