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Re: An appropriate directory search tool?

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On 10/20/2018 05:23 AM, Étienne Mollier wrote:
> [snip]
>> My take away from answers so far is "A script will be required."
> 
> Not necessarily, the trouble is: "find" is so vast, you can
> spend hours in the manual to search for adequate option for
> your specific need, and end up writing a script, instead of
> having found "the proper option".

I don't think "find" itself is the problem.
Debian seems to do some 'black magic' to conflate "standard output" and 
"standard input". Otherwise a pipe command would be required between 
"find" and "grep".

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