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A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

88 mentions on Hacker News by 76 people: 9 stories, 79 comments · first 2017-06-08 · latest 2026-08-28

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  1. Terrible interface. Use fd https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
  2. fd ( https://github.com/sharkdp/fd ) is the best command line search utility IMO. Its crazy fast and always found what I was looking for. If you want a GUI alternative, check out Drill ( https://github.com/yatima1460/Drill ). Although the…
  3. You might find, https://github.com/sharkdp/fd to your liking. It is simple, intuitive, and very fast.
  4. …setup: https://github.com/pavopax/dotfiles CLI tools: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher https://github.com/sharkdp/fd/ https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr EDIT: formatting
  5. …of things like "the silver searcher" ( https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher ) or "fd" ( https://github.com/sharkdp/fd ). And, Replace: with tools like sed ( https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/ ). These are really simple tools but…
  6. …`fd` [1] which is written in Rust and very fast alternative to `find` with a simpler syntax. 1. https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
    comment by yewenjie · 2020-05-19 · in Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]
  7. Throw in those, + fd[0] and rg[1] 0: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd 1: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
  8. …change over time and these tools simply havent kept up. Like the other user, I use Fd now instead: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd As well as Silver Searcher: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher while Grep performance is pretty…
  9. I used to do this until just replacing it with `fd`. https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
  10. …more lately with tools like https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep https://github.com/sharkdp/bat https://github.com/sharkdp/fd and they work great on Windows (plus are easily installable by https://scoop.sh/ ). Hope the Windows story will…
  11. Yeah so many CLI tools in Rust: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd/ https://github.com/sharkdp/bat https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep https://github.com/ogham/exa
  12. Have you tried fd yet? it's more intuitive than find. https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
  13. fd is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find. Install from https://github.com/sharkdp/fd/ . Example: to find all files with .md extension in current directory : fd -e md
  14. …as it offers lots of filtering options right out of the box - much more useable than find imho. https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
    comment by petepete · 2019-07-05 · in How FZF and ripgrep improved my workflow
  15. …is anything we could to to improve fd's UX, it would be great if you could share it on GitHub: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd > Why separating the extension from the filename? Is this a default It does not need to be! You can just also just…
    comment by sharkdp · 2019-05-31 · in Lsd: The next gen ls command
  16. I'm assuming it's this - https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
    comment by thunderbong · 2019-05-21 · in Lsd: The next gen ls command
  17. …) - autojump ( https://github.com/wting/autojump ) - jq ( https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ ) - fd ( https://github.com/sharkdp/fd )
    comment by numbers · 2019-03-07 · in Writing a Book with Unix
  18. There's also fd[1], which is written in rust and is super fast. [1] https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
    comment by robert_foss · 2019-02-27 · in Find Files (Ff) – File Search Utility in Rust
  19. and you can also try fd https://github.com/sharkdp/fd (it works without index)
  20. two of my most used shell commands are "j" ( https://github.com/wting/autojump ) and "fd" ( https://github.com/sharkdp/fd ) Autojump makes it easy to quickly jump into any directory I've visited and then I can open my editor or Finder…
  21. Just about every Rust cli app written by sharkdp: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd https://github.com/sharkdp/bat https://github.com/sharkdp/diskus https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine For viewing csv's as tabular, paged data from the…
    comment by Dowwie · 2018-11-19 · in Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
  22. I suspect you'd also enjoy fd - https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
    comment by callahad · 2018-11-19 · in Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
  23. Hadn't heard of rg before, awesome! Perfect counterpart to sharkdp's alternative find: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
  24. ….com/folknor/4d7da1168497eae5eaf404f20c98... It requires a few lua modules and CLI tools, for example https://github.com/sharkdp/fd - like all the lua scripts I write for my own use. Also, now that I was going to post it, I went through my…
  25. Formatting: Written in Rust - fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' https://github.com/sharkdp/fd - ripgrep: ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep - exa:…
  26. Written in Rust: - fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' https://github.com/sharkdp/fd - ripgrep: ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep - exa: Replacement…
  27. Been using ripgrep for a while now, I love it. One other Rust tool people might find useful is fd ( https://github.com/sharkdp/fd ) which is similar to find.
  28. Looks like Fedora's missing fd https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
  29. …not entirely sure, yet, but I'd be happy to discuss this. A GitHub ticket would be the best place ( https://github.com/sharkdp/fd/issues ).