What problem it solves

Finding files and directories can require verbose commands and options that are cumbersome for common tasks. The project provides a simpler interface with regular expressions, glob patterns, and sensible defaults for most filesystem searches.

Key features

• Intuitive pattern matching — Search with a direct pattern using regular expressions by default, or switch to glob-based matching for exact filename searches.

  Source: README

• Useful default visibility — Search results exclude hidden files and ignored paths by default, while options allow those restrictions to be relaxed or selectively overridden.

  Source: README

• Smart case behavior — Matching is case-insensitive unless the pattern contains an uppercase character, or case sensitivity is selected explicitly.

  Source: README

• Command execution — Commands can run once for every result or once with all results, with placeholders for constructing argument templates.

  Source: README

• Flexible filtering — Searches can filter by extension, file type, depth, size, modification time, owner, path, and exclusion patterns.

  Source: README, src

Quick start

Copied verbatim from the project's README.

apt install fd-find

> fd netfl
Software/python/imdb-ratings/netflix-details.py

Who it may suit

This may suit developers, system administrators, and command-line users who frequently need to locate files or directories and act on search results.

Topics to discuss

• Which filesystem-search workflows or option combinations should receive more examples?

• How can integrations with editors, fuzzy finders, and other command-line tools be improved?

• Which ignore-file and hidden-file behaviors should be documented or refined?

Written by ReadmeX AI from the project's README, source and public GitHub data; it may contain mistakes.

Read the original README https://github.com/sharkdp/fd#readme

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