fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
Published on: 2025-06-09 23:44:17
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fd is a program to find entries in your filesystem. It is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find . While it does not aim to support all of find 's powerful functionality, it provides sensible (opinionated) defaults for a majority of use cases.
Installation • How to use • Troubleshooting
Features
Intuitive syntax: fd PATTERN instead of find -iname '*PATTERN*' .
instead of . Regular expression (default) and glob-based patterns.
Very fast due to parallelized directory traversal.
Uses colors to highlight different file types (same as ls ).
). Supports parallel command execution
Smart case: the search is case-insensitive by default. It switches to case-sensitive if the pattern contains an uppercase character*.
Ignores hidden directories and files, by default.
Ignores patterns from your .gitignore , by default.
, by default. The command name is 50% shorter* than find :-).
Demo
How to use
First, to get an overview of all available command line optio
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