I search for files, and it never seems to find them. Plus it only does one drive at a time, and not just searches my external drives. Any suggestions?
I gave up on search utlities of GUIs after having the same problem with dolphin (don’t know what it uses as a backend, maybe ksearch?)
If you’re a GUI guy, catfish is good. If you’re a term guy, fzf, rg, fd are very fast and powerful. I search for files in / (meaning EVERYTHING) and tge results are there in less than 10 seconds.
This blog post has some example usages, read the entries for fzf, rg and fd.
thank you!
For a long time I was a mlocate guy.
updatedblocate filesfind . -iname “searchword”
tree -ifandgrepare another way to go.or, I’ve also seen some use
duas part of their file search strategy. heh.strange ways.
dushow them
ncdunext timencdu
that’s fine if wanting a tui, like for its intended purpose, rather than something grepable/awkable/sortable/cutable/headable/tailable/etc. like better suited to file search
Another tool to search in terminal is https://github.com/junegunn/fzf .
I use Kfind https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.kde.kfind
Thank you!
I use the fd (or fdfind in Debian) tool to search my files. I think it’s faster and easier to remember.
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Very happy with
thank you!
This worked awesome, so thank you!
Does this search file content or just path names?
I don’t know, tbh, I only use it for filename searches.
For finding files by name, I use the locate command in terminal
grep is life
