Better find.

fnd.sh

# https://stackoverflow.com/a/28938235
fnd () {
  UNDER_ON=`tput smul`
  UNDER_OFF=`tput rmul`
  BOLD=`tput bold`    # Select bold mode
  BLACK=`tput setaf 0`
  RED=`tput setaf 1`
  GREEN=`tput setaf 2`
  YELLOW=`tput setaf 3`
  BLUE=`tput setaf 4`
  MAGENTA=`tput setaf 5`
  CYAN=`tput setaf 6`
  WHITE=`tput setaf 7`
  RESET=`tput sgr0`

  if [ -z "$1" ]; then
    printf "\n"
    printf "${BOLD}${GREEN}fnd: Finds files and directories avoiding common garbage directories.${RESET}\n"
    printf "\n"
    printf "  ${BOLD}fnd root${RESET}\n"
    printf "    Finds all files from a root\n"
    printf "\n"
    printf "        fnd .\n"
    printf "        fnd ./relativePath\n"
    printf "\n"
    printf "  ${BOLD}fnd root namePattern${RESET}\n"
    printf "    Finds files from root, matching a -name pattern. Place name pattern in single quotes.\n"
    printf "\n"
    printf "      fnd path '*.re'\n"
    printf "      fnd path '*.txt'\n"
    printf "      fnd path 'filename.*'\n"
    printf "      fnd path 'Basena'       # Does not match files named Basename\n"
    printf "      fnd path 'Basena*'      # Matches file named Basename\n"
    printf "\n"
    printf "  ${BOLD}fnd root namePattern command with args${RESET}\n"
    printf "    Finds from root, matching name pattern, but also executes a command with arguments.\n"
    printf "    The '{}' will be substituted with the file name found.\n"
    printf "\n"
    printf "      fnd path '*.re' echo '{}'\n"
    printf "      fnd path '*.re' ls -al '{}'\n"
    printf "\n"
    printf "\n"
  else
    if [ -z "$2" ]; then
      find "$1" -path \*/.git -prune -o -path \*/.hg -prune -o -path \*/node_modules -prune -o -path \*/_build -prune -o -print
    else
      if [ -z "$3" ]; then
        # Second, but no third arg
        find "$1" -path \*/.git -prune -o -path \*/.hg -prune -o -path \*/node_modules -prune -o -path \*/_build -prune -o -name "$2" -print
      else
        # Second and third arg. Shift them away so that $@ is the remaining command
        DIR_ROOT="$1"
        NAME_PAT="$2"
        shift
        shift
        find "$DIR_ROOT" -path \*/.git -prune -o -path \*/.hg -prune -o -path \*/node_modules -prune -o -path \*/_build -prune -o -name "$NAME_PAT" -exec  "$@" \;
      fi
    fi
  fi
}