I'm not sure find's argument syntax is something you'd want to intentionally replicate, unless it was actually identical. I can make find do some fantastic things, but it's not the most intuitive thing in the world.

Anyway, if you want ordinary find in perl, try find2perl ./ -type f | perl?

What I think would be really neat would be a DBD::AnyData interface for File::Find so you could do SQL queries against your filesystem. I'd use that a lot I bet.