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Re: "locate" easier to use than "find"



On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 01:52:28PM +0200, Oliver Schoede wrote:

[...]

> Have basically stopped using traditional 'find' outside of scripts, as
> always thought I was about the last one [...]

Dunno. I use find nearly every day. Seeing it as "just a recursive
grep" doesn't cover a fraction of its usefulness.

A couple of days ago I was searching for dangling symlinks.

  find . -follow -lname "*"

did the trick.

Cheers
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t

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