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I always found them to be too detailed.

It's easier for me to just write down most commonly used syntaxes of commands, or use something like https://tldr.sh/.



Don't get me started on "man find". I usually end up googling it (I don't use the terminal frequently).

Why can't I type "find toto.txt" and it looks for the file everywhere? If I need a more complex search I'm fine providing more arguments but give me something by default so that I don't spend 10 minutes trying to find how to use find ;)

Yes I could make an alias, but it won't be available everywhere.


You might find,

https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

to your liking. It is simple, intuitive, and very fast.


locate (mlocate) does that, but it's not find's job to do it. I understand why the naming might be unfortunate though.




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