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?
Another tool to search in terminal is https://github.com/junegunn/fzf .
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.
I use Kfind https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.kde.kfind
Thank you!
find . -iname “searchword”
Very happy with
thank you!
Does this search file content or just path names?
I don’t know, tbh, I only use it for filename searches.
This worked awesome, so thank you!
For finding files by name, I use the locate command in terminal
grep is life
I use the fd (or fdfind in Debian) tool to search my files. I think it’s faster and easier to remember.
thank you
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.
