An intro to finding things in Linux

• fd

  172 31,581 8.8 Rust

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

This 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.

• fzf

  407 59,739 9.6 Go

  :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

This 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.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• the_silver_searcher

  59 25,720 0.0 C

  A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.

These are all great, but the one I find myself using constantly on source code and other text-oriented files is The Silver Searcher (ag)[1]. It’s not as useful for file _names_, but most of the time, I care about contents and this searches, in realtime, at an incredible speed. Add the -l flag to list only filenames and you’ve got an amazing code location tool.

[1] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

• fstring

  2 3 10.0 Shell

  Make searching for text strings easier on Linux :)

here’s a version of ‘find’ I use quite often …… I usually download it to run as “fstring”. it outputs the file name and the string match:

https://github.com/figital/fstring

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