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  • i haven't mentioned this explicitly, but it seems that my shell is not zsh but rather sh (hence i have only tagged this as shell - what's more, it seems i cannot actually change the shell (that's all within a flatpak build script). but IFS=:; find $PATH looks great. Commented Jul 30 at 14:16
  • @umläute: For interactive use I often use a subshell if I want to set IFS. Like (IFS=$'\n'; mpv $(locate -iA foo bar ) ) to play video/audio found by locate, with filenames from locate which don't contain newlines, but do contain spaces and whatnot. (Usually I control-r recall on $(locate, not retyping all of that from scratch. The actual command I use is mpv $(find $(locate ...) -maxdepth 0 -type f ...) to filter out dirs, so is a lot to type; I sometimes adjust parts other than the locate options so I've never bothered to put it in a script.) Commented Jul 31 at 10:03
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    @PeterCordes, note GNU find now supports a -files0-from predicate, so you can do (much more reliably and efficiently) find -files0-from <(locate -0 ...) -prune -type f -exec mpv {} + (or use zsh and its 0 parameter expansion flag to split NUL-delimited records (or f for line feed delimited records) and can filter lists of files by type with its glob qualifiers). Commented Jul 31 at 10:37
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    Wouldn't it be better to use ( IFS=:; find -H $PATH -name 'gcc-*' ) so the IFS value isn't changed in the parent shell? Commented Jul 31 at 11:30
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    @CSM, I don't know of any find implementation that supports a --depth=n option. FreeBSD's find has -depth 1, but it's a condition one only, doesn't stop from descending deeper, you want GNU-style -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 already mentioned. Commented Jul 31 at 14:54