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findcan be a bit slow because it enumerates every directory recursively from the root you specified, but it let's you do a lot more than just search by name.locateis available on most distros and give fast results, albiet from when the index was last rebuilt (usually nightly). They both have the vital property that they output a list of files to stdout for further processing.+1 for locate and updatedb. It works on macos too.
It's worth mentioning you can manually kick off an index build with I believe
updatedb(in most cases).