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Find files with SQL-like queries

16 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 5 stories, 11 comments · first 2018-11-19 · latest 2025-03-19

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  1. …-path ./excluded_dir which is a bit more ergonomic. [1]: https://github.com/raforg/rawhide [2]: https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect [3]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/blob/main/docs/USAGE.md#-e...
    comment by tavianator · 2025-03-19 · in fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
  2. …unusually named files (not that I've tried it yet). EDIT: seems to be a similar issue with fselect: https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect/issues/150
    comment by mksybr · 2024-06-05 · in Show HN: zfind – CLI like find but using SQL syntax and also does tar/zip
  3. …a look at fselect, that uses SQL dialect for search queries and supports archives (and much more). https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect
    comment by berlinmonk · 2024-06-05 · in Show HN: zfind – CLI like find but using SQL syntax and also does tar/zip
  4. …but for other platforms, there is fselect[1]. Can do all that, and tries to adhere to SQL. [1] https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect
    comment by natrys · 2024-02-13 · in Perun2 Programming Language
  5. Shameless plug: a tool I wrote to manage downloads directory :) https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect
    comment by jhspt · 2022-04-13 · in New(ish) command line tools
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    Fselect – a CLI tool to find files with “not quite SQL” query language
    story by notlikeme23 · 2021-12-31 · 0 comments
  7. https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect A tiny tool I wrote to search within file piles (mostly unsorted downloads, torrents, and such). I could never remember `find` options, and more advanced queries are a pain. Now one can use some kind…
    comment by jhspt · 2021-05-16 · in Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
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    Fselect: Find files with SQL-like queries
    story by ingve · 2021-04-05 · 42 comments
  9. You can do that kind of things already, albeit not from within a single universal shell: - https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect - https://github.com/osquery/osquery
    comment by vthriller · 2020-08-07 · in Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful modern programming language
  10. If you like the sql-like filesystem interaction, check out: https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect I've integrated this into my workflow, it's a polished tool.
    comment by dimator · 2020-08-07 · in Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful modern programming language
  11. In case you are interested in more sophisticated ls or find, try fselect ( https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect ). That tool supports JSON as output as well. Fselect has few really cool features, esp. when you got to deal with complex…
    comment by SneakyPit · 2019-08-24 · in Introducing nushell
  12. …Here people use SQL to query and format data right from the shell: https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect https://github.com/facebook/osquery Also, libxo is a library that allows tools like ls(1) in FreeBSD to generate data
    comment by vthriller · 2019-05-20 · in Show HN: UXY – adding structure to Unix tools
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    Fselect: Find Files with Sql-Like Queries
    story by okanesen · 2019-02-15 · 0 comments
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    Fselect: Find files with SQL-like queries
    story by the_other_guy · 2019-01-07 · 0 comments
  15. I became addicted to these great tools all written in Rust: fselect - https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect ripgrep - https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep exa - https://the.exa.website They are the replacements for traditional find,…
    comment by IgorrrR · 2018-11-19 · in Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
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    Show HN: Fselect – CLI tool to search files with SQL-like queries (made in Rust)
    story by jhspetersson · 2018-11-19 · 2 comments