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Sunshine (she/her) to [email protected] • 6 months ago

Finally, a Linux finder tool I can use

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Finally, a Linux finder tool I can use

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Sunshine (she/her) to [email protected] • 6 months ago
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    6•6 months ago

    I always just use

    find | grep -i <partial file name>
    
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      7•6 months ago

      Well that’s clearly worse… Why even make this comment?

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        5•6 months ago

        Because sometimes people want to share solutions that work for them. A clunky solution that you remember is better than the optimal solution you can’t access.

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      5•6 months ago
      find <dir> -iname partialfilename\*
      

      Is pretty much the “find-native” way to do the same thing

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      just use fd at that point

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