fd

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 development seems stalled, it works well for normal usecases.

You might find, https://github.com/sharkdp/fd to your liking. It is simple, intuitive, and very fast.

Focusing on "more efficient" in "better": - emacs: works for me to code in R, python, connect to remotes, etc - keyboard shortcuts: got started with them early, and never looked back. Bonus: linux/macOS/emacs text navigation works across all of them (ctrl-f, ctrl-b, ctrl-a, ctrl-k, alt-delete, etc) - git: managing file versions and file diffs (!) - GitHub: terrific for project management, even when I'm the only one on the project ;) - CLI utilities that I love: - ag, a better "grep" - fd, a better "find" - tldr, a better "man" My dotfiles and new box 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

I'll add two really simple, but also very effective tools. Search: in the form 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 they are also very powerful. I have surprisingly often needed to change from version X.Y.Z to version A.B.C in some set of files (be it package.json or requirements.txt or *.csproj) and tools like these make it happen in an instant. Most recently they have helped me with some spaghetti code where the software is used in several places and I need to ensure exactly which places use the KerfuffleManager. Can I trust my IDE to find all places where it is used? Maybe, but with proper search tools it stops being a trust thing.

There is also `fd` [1] which is written in Rust and very fast alternative to `find` with a simpler syntax. 1. https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

Throw in those, + fd[0] and rg[1] 0: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd 1: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

As another user mentioned, many POSIX and/or GNU utilities havent aged well. I respect trying to stay portable, but peoples needs 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 good, its also gotten pretty stale with regard to its defaults and options.

I used to do this until just replacing it with `fd`. https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

Looks like really cool and useful project. Is it usable on Windows though? I can't press Shift key to enter ":" for commands. Seems like a dealbreaker. I tested it on WSL and Ubuntu on VM and Shift works there. Anyway. This look super cool. I'm a Windows guy but have been using terminal 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 improve for Broot to. Some suggestions after very quick look (except not working Shift key on Windows). * Screen refreshing and general experience is really slow. Hold arrow key for couple of seconds and see that refreshing can't catch up. The best performance is on standard windows cmd, a bit worse on new "Windows Termin

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