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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 22:45 this Thursday (GMT):
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 14:50:06 +0300, Anssi Saari wrote:
>
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>> 
>>> What’s an obvious omission from his list? To me, it’s the “find”
>>> command.
>> 
>> Possibly or something like it. I just started looking into rawhide which
>> is another search tool. My interest is rawhide's ability to search for
>> tags in extended attributes. I've started adding tags to videos and
>> photos so I can search for those with rawhide.
>
> The “find” command has the ability to execute external commands. Those can 
> produce output on their own, and/or their success/failure exit status can 
> be used as a filter on matching files.


To be fair, "find" can be a bit of a rabbithole to learn. I personally
only know the basics of -name, -iname, and -type.
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