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?
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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!
Another tool to search in terminal is https://github.com/junegunn/fzf .
find . -iname “searchword”
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.
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.
thank you
For finding files by name, I use the locate command in terminal
For a long time I was a mlocate guy.
updatedblocate filestree -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
grep is life
