Actually, using the "locate" database (if you are running updatedb on a regular basis) would probably be a good compromise of using a brute-force "find" (even Perl's Find package) and Spotlight (with its inherent limitations).

"locate .icns" should probably run faster than the Perl Find, albeit maybe not quite as fast as a true Spotlight search, since both locate and Spotlight simply query a database instead of traversing every file on every mounted volume in real time. (The locate database is created regularly by updatedb, but this may or may not be enabled in a typical OS X install; it's easy enough to enable, though.)

I leave the mechanism of using locate instead of Perl Find as an exercise for the reader.

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