Maybe you'll call me a pedant, but you should be aware that `find .` is not equivalent to `ls .* *`. The find command starts at the indicated directories (. in this case) and lists each file and directory within it, recursing into subdirectories. You can use things like -type, -[i]name, and -mtime to filter the results, as well as -mindepth and -maxdepth to constrain the traversal.

Note also that "-print" is the default command for find, so you can leave it off. Other commands include -print0 (NUL-delimited instead of newline-delimited) and -exec.