How to get a debug output from the find command?
With an
lsof -p `pidof find`
you can see, where is your find command currently.
With a
strace -p `pidof find`
you can check, what it is doing currently.
None of them have really beautiful output - they are debug tools, but the little bit of learning their output is also really useful.
The man file for find has debug options
you probably want find -D search -type d -name "something" 2>&1
it doesn't seem to be in the man file but find -D help
prints
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