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[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

If you're using find all the time, check to see if you have or can have some variant of locate installed. It indexes everything* on the system (* this is configurable) and can be queried with partial pathnames, even with regex, and it's fast.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I use locate when I don't know where the files are. Find has finer controls and can differentiate between regular files, links, directories, etc.

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