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Comment by nailer | Hacker News Reader

find did itself such a disservice with it's syntax.

    find . -name 'somefile'

should have been just

    find 'somefile'

Ie, defaulting to the current dir and default to find via name.

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You might like https://github.com/sharkdp/fd. I use it as it is fast, although I've used `find` for so long I have to think about the differences before I do.

Yeah I don't like using find's predicate options, I often just do

find | grep somefile

because I can also use all the pattern syntax I use elsewhere in grep commands.

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