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Editing (or running) file(s) regardless of current directory.

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).

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