fsearch

Have you seen FSearch? https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch It's quite similar to Everything. Btw, there's also fooyin which you may say is "modeled" after foobar2000 https://github.com/fooyin/fooyin - another piece I miss from Windows.

FSearch is a FOSS alternative for unix-like systems https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch

Hi, author here. Likely the most significant benefit is the more powerful query language. For example you can also search by file modification date or size and use boolean operators. https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch/wiki/Search-syntax

Yes, FSearch is the one I use, but it's not as great, per FSearch's dev: > However, FSearch doesn't automatically detect changes made to the file system and update its index then. This is on the roadmap (it's called inotify support) but it'll never work as smooth as Everything on Windows, because the Linux kernel isn't particularly good at reporting filesystem changes https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch/issues/26 Everything is comprehensive + instant + always up-to-date, that's so awesome a combo it's a pity it's Windows only

Have you checked fsearch? https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch It got very good in the last 1-2 years and while ext4 fs don't support a file index like NTFS does, fsearch is still very fast, caches its results, offers similar features etc.

FSearch is a fast file search utility, inspired by Everything Search Engine. https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch

There is FSearch for GNU/Linux: https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch

+1 for Everything. Fsearch is a good alternative on Linux https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch

I have settled on putting tags (bunch of words I associate with given subject separated by underscores) in names of files/directories and using FSearch (https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch) to search for the tags in names/paths. It's simple, it's portable, it's good enough. You could in theory improve it by having multiple views of the same data (let's say you want to save some notes about "Naturalis Historia" - should you put it under "ancient Rome" directory or under"biology"?) for example by using hardlinks but I don't know if there is a way to create a backup on another filesystem that will keep hardlinks as hardlinks (DAR seems promising http://dar.linux.free.fr/doc/Features.html but I have yet to try it).

FSearch is inspired by Everything. https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch For general file search at ludicious speeds like Everything does on windows its pretty good :)

FSearch is an equivalent for Linux. https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch