| ▲ | IsTom 5 hours ago | |
`find` does a lot more things than that. | ||
| ▲ | lucasoshiro an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
> `find` does a lot more things than that. And I don't think that's a good thing. Especially because AI coding agents use it a lot. They only need to hallucinate a little to destroy your filesystem. | ||
| ▲ | 1718627440 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
It is just a query language for the filesystem, which is what "finding" means. It's essentially like the SQL SELECT expression. | ||
| ▲ | laweijfmvo 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Definitely. The whole Unix philosophy of each command doing one thing and being easily composable always seemed to break down in my mind when it came to find. find does a lot. similar to ripgrep, though, fd is a modern replacement that’s a bit friendlier to use. | ||