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At least on OneDrive for Android, a bizarre thing is that search is _not_ equivalent to find . -iname. It is able to find search terms in the _content_ of documents but not their filenames.


Well, you can have the same functionality with find if you want it:

find -type f -exec grep -Hn "_content_" {} \;


  grep -RHn "_content_" .


Though I much prefer this solution, the GP solution is better when there are non-text documents in the directory tree. Find is nice and that you can narrow it down by file name or file extension, without relying on bash globs.


Yep

I just did it more tongue-in-cheek like the unneeded cat commands.

There’s definitely use cases. If you want to search for a keyword on the file name, that one’s great.




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