qfind -- Command

Quickly find all files with a given name
qfind [-adpv] name ...
qfind [-bv] [-sdirectory]

The command qfind prints the full path name of each file with a given name.
It reads  a prebuilt data  base, for the  sake of speed.   This makes qfind
much faster than find for locating a file; but it does mean that changes to
the file system since the data  base was last updated will not be reflected
in what qfind prints.

The option -b tells qfind to  build its data base in file /usr/adm/qffiles.
By default, this data base names every file in your system.  If you wish to
suppress a  directory, name it with  the -s option.  For  example, to build
the data base but suppress the directory /usr/spool, use the command:

    qfind -b -s/usr/spool

This command  excludes the contents of directory /usr/spool  and all of its
children from the qfind data base.

When invoked without the -b option,  qfind reads its data base to find file
names.

Normally, qfind  prints the  full path  name of each  file in  the COHERENT
system that  ends with  the given  name (as it  was when you  last executed
qfind -b.) With the -d option, qfind prints matching directories instead of
files.  With  the -a option, qfind prints both  matching files and matching
directories.

Option  -p specifies  partial  name matching.   For example,  qfind -p  foo
matches files /src/foo.c and /doc/foo.r as well as file /usr/bin/foo.

Finally, option -v tells qfind to print verbose output.

Files

/usr/adm/qffiles

See Also

commands,
cron,
find,
whereis,
which

Notes

Building the  qfind data  base with  the -b option  is slow, but  it speeds
finding files.  You may find it  convenient to use cron to execute qfind -b
to rebuild the  data base at night, or some  other time when the machine is
otherwise idle.

If you want to include all  files in the data base, the superuser root must
run qfind -b.

© 2012 by Stephen A. Ness