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by DaSHacka 501 days ago
Find has its uses, I use it frequently to correct improper unix file permissions and owners and when I need to execute a command on a list of files.

However for the vast majority of queries, I'm only looking for something based on the filename, and that's where having sane regex and standard argument structure (like fd has) is great.

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> for the vast majority of queries, I'm only looking for something based on the filename

I'd manage with find|grep but yes, nothing wrong with wanting something more compact.

> sane regex

For me that's POSIX ERE, I don't know which flavor fd uses.