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2014-08-11
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i dont know how i landed on this post 
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2014-08-12
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Originally Posted by nokiabot
And you woke up a 4 years old thread to say that!???
i dont know how i landed on this post
But now that the cat is out of the bag, I'd like to point out that...
Originally Posted by RenaldoTT
...the -name or -iname argument of find combines find and grep in one command and, in my experience, is about 10 to 20% faster than find | grep.
find / = search for a file or folder in the complete system
find /home/user = search for a file or folder in /home/user
| grep <name> = what you're looking for e.g."dpkg -l |grep zen" lists all files in the system starting with "zen"
E.g.:
Code:
find <start_path> -name <string> find /home/user -iname "*config*"
Note2: Possibly even in this thread, I have not read it all.