Since then, I still haven't gotten the hang of 'find'. But my find demands are fairly minimal. Even so, it'd be nice to have a simple CL utility for searching. Today I ran across an article at O'Reilly & Assoc. that mentions the program 'locate'. Check out Unix for the Rest of Us for a great overview of the UNIX underpinnings of OS X (on the first page) and a detailed example of using 'locate' on the second page.
[Editor's note: This is an article from June, but it's still quite relevant today, and makes for good reading. Once you understand how locate works, go grab a copy of the freeware program Locator, which wraps a nice Cocoa GUI around the 'locate' command, allowing you to run lightning-fast searches from the GUI. Locator's speed leaves Sherlock in the dust.]

