tl;dr

Editing;

$photoortexteditoryoulike $(find / -iname incompletefilenam*)

Running;

exec $(find / -iname incompletepackagenam*)

Interacting (copying, moving, etc);

$desiredinteraction $(find / -iname desiredfileorpackag*) /desired/output/directory

It may be a “not-so-attractive” tip for most of you, but I find it really useful when I want to edit a specific file (that is located alongside several ones, like a picture or a text file). Or when I’ve finished compiling something and I want to find the binary file asap. Saves me lots of time on really slow pcs (like a rpi zero).

  • Andrew@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    I wouldn’t do this personally, but if I did, I think I’d at least pipe the results to head -n 1 to only act on the first result.