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The ripgrep Command Is a Better Alternative to the find Command

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Installation on Debian/Ubuntu Based Linux Distributions

wajig install ripgrep

Installation on macOS

brew install ripgrep

List Files

There are 2 ways to list files using ripgrep. The first way is file name (globbing pattern) based and the second way is file content (regex pattern) based.

Tips on fd

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Tips & Traps

  1. fd is much faster compared to find.

Installation

wajig install fd-find

The install binary is fdfind.

Example Usages

  1. Find all directories under $dir. 

    fdfind --type d . $dir

  2. Find all …

The Best Way to Find Files and Manipulate Them

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

There are many cool (command-line) tools which can help you quickly find/locate files. Notice that they can all be combined with fzf to make it interactive.

  1. fdfind
  2. find
  3. locate
  4. osquery
  5. fselect
  6. ripgrep

Those tools can be combined with the pipe operator |