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On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 01:16:20 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> <https://www.zdnet.com/article/im-a-linux-expert-and-here-are-6-
commands-i-cant-live-without/>
> 
> What’s an obvious omission from his list? To me, it’s the “find”
> command. I have millions of files on my main machine (quite literally,
> I would say), and it is the most convenient and powerful way of finding
> something I might have worked on years ago, and mostly forgotten about
> since then.

It's very annoying when I have a senior moment and try to use find on a 
Windows box. While I have ls, grep, cat, and so forth 'find' finds the 
lame Windows command. I suppose I should fix that.