TRtraceroute66·Dec 31, 2021
find or indeed, the Rust-based fd[1] which is infinitesimally faster.
[1]https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
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fd
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
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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
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- junegunn/fzf · linked in 5 of the same discussions
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| 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
13 sourcesGive fd a try. It work how you'd expect find would.
https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
In A common mistake involving wildcards and the find command (2020)I’ve almost entirely stopped using find and switched to fd, very simple options.. works pretty well for my purposes. https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
In A common mistake involving wildcards and the find command (2020)https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/fish#Setting_fish_as_intera... you can use it as an interactive shell in bash as well. Fzf can also use Rusty fd.
;)
https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
In ZSH Completions How ToThis is what I use:
https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
Which you can install as a binary, or via cargo. fd is spectacular.
To that you can add: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
Which you can bind to a key in your shell for convenience.
In An intro to finding things in LinuxUpstream says Ubuntu's package is 'fd-find' (and the executable is 'fdfind' -- both renamed from upstream's 'fd' because of a name collision with an unrelated Debian package. If you don't care about that one, you can safely alias fd="fdfind").
https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
(I've edited my first comment in response to this reply: I originally wrote "fdfind". (For a comment about regexp tools, this is a uniquely, hilariously stupid oversight. Sorry!)).
In Hop: Faster than unzip and tar at reading individual filesSpeaking of faster coreutils replacements, I highly recommend ripgrep (rg) and fd-find (fd), which are Rust-based, incompatible replacements for grep and find.
I know I'm way behind the popularity curve* (they're already in debian-stable, for crying out loud); but for the benefit of anyone even more out of the loop than myself, do check these out. The speed increase is amazing: a significant quality-of-life improvement, essentially for free**. Particularly if you're on a modern NVME SSD and not utilizing it properly. (Incidentally, did you know the "t" in coreutil's "tar" stands for magnetic [t]ape?")
* (The now-top reply to this comment says 'ag' is even superior to 'rg', and they're probably right, but I had no clue about it! I did say I'm ignorant!)
**(Might have some cost if you're heavily invested in power-user syntax of the GNU or B
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SD versions, in which case incompatibility has a price).
https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
Sounds like you're looking for `find` or `fd`
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/find.1.html
(-mindepth -maxdepth can also be added to make it stricter)
find some/location -type d -wholename '*/January/Photos'
https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
fd -p '*/January/Photos' some/location
In Go Find Duplicates: A fast and simple tool to find duplicate filesMine are fd [0] to replace `find` and tldr [1] to replace `man`.
[0]: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
[1]: https://tldr.sh/
In Ripgrep 13.0dd I really don't mind, because it makes me think and double-check that I'm flashing the right device every time.
find is annoying, though. I'd encourage you to check out fd.
https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
In Why do long options start with two dashes? (2019)If anyone is looking for alternatives, try fd
https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
In Why do long options start with two dashes? (2019)> find -> fd
oh, I loved it! Thanks for sharing. For others interested, here [1].
I still need to check others, but find is the one I use the most anyway.
btw, it seems ytop [2] is not being maintained anymore. I use gtop [3], which has the same interface, but was developed in Node instead of Rust.
[1] https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
[2] https://github.com/cjbassi/ytop
[3] https://github.com/aksakalli/gtop
In I use `exa` instead of `ls` on LinuxTerrible interface. Use fd https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
In Show HN: Useful Linux tool, Find wrapper in Bash script