RYryloric·Oct 31, 2019
Have you tried fd yet? it's more intuitive than find.
https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
In Ask HN: What software/app do you wish would exist?sharkdp
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fd
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
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What it is
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
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What people are saying
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.
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- burntsushi/ripgrep · linked in 10 of the same discussions
- sharkdp/bat · linked in 6 of the same discussions
- junegunn/fzf · linked in 5 of the same discussions
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 1 | 8 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 11 | 1 | 10 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 13 | 0 | 13 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 11 | 1 | 10 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 10 | 1 | 9 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 10 | 1 | 9 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
What Hacker News says
9 sourcesfd: A simple, fast, user-friendly alternative to 'find'
45 points · Open discussionfd 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
In Ask HN: What are some terminal tricks you wish you knew sooner?Neat. I use it for all kinds of stuff in Rails Feb, from searching routes and rake tasks to finding Cucumber step definitions.
I'd recommend using fd for listing files as it offers lots of filtering options right out of the box - much more useable than find imho.
https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
In How FZF and ripgrep improved my workflowAuthor of fd here. Thank you for your feedback.
If you feel that there 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 use "fd README.md". Admittedly, the "." will actually search for any character (regex), so if you want to be precise, you need to escape it.
In Lsd: The next gen ls commandI'm assuming it's this -
https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
In Lsd: The next gen ls commandI like that you mentioned `bat` and `ag`, two of many favorite CLI tools.
Others you might want to checkout not necessarily for writing a book but general CLI pleasantness:
- fzf (https://github.com/junegunn/fzf)
- autojump (https://github.com/wting/autojump)
- jq (https://stedolan.github.io/jq/)
- fd (https://github.com/sharkdp/fd)
In Writing a Book with UnixThere's also fd[1], which is written in rust and is super fast.
[1] https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
In Find Files (Ff) – File Search Utility in Rustand you can also try fd https://github.com/sharkdp/fd (it works without index)
In Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly on Windows