On Sat, 23 Apr 2022 21:15:34 +0200
Antony Stone <antony.st...@devuan.open.source.it> wrote:

> On Saturday 23 April 2022 at 21:11:18, Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 23 Apr 2022 09:07:57 -0700 Fred wrote:  
>  [...]  
> > 
> > Some time ago, in a similar situation, I had been successful with
> > 
> > $ find / | grep xorg.conf  
> 
> Personally I'd have gone for:
> 
>       find / -name xorg.conf


I may be wrong (and nitpicking;) - but I think that your approach is
less fast, as 'find' does the file name matching /before/ it continues
searching - in opposite to just piping its output to grep and going on
with running down the file system hierarchy without any interruption.

libre Grüße,
Florian
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