locate is not mentioned -- two orders of magnitude faster than find for searches from '/' on my laptop, e.g.

  find / -name \*bashrc\*

  locate bashrc
Faster because reading from a single binary cache file, updated nightly, rather than opening every directory inode under /. To force an immediate synchronous update of the cache:

  sudo updatedb

There is also `fd` [1] which is written in Rust and very fast alternative to `find` with a simpler syntax.

1. https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

curious, is there a rust based implementation of posix utils or at least stuff from gnu-coreutils etc. ? thanks !