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Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find, written in Rust

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Re: Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find, written in Rust

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Post by jitl »

josteink wrote: post #4

My main usecase for find is not only finding files, but to do actions on them through -exec. Unless I’m missing something, that’s not supported with this tool.

You can easily compose this with `xargs` using the`-0 / --print0` option:

fd -0 '\.log$' | xargs -0 tail

Re: Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find, written in Rust

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Post by coldtea »

It would be nice to have a collection of modern/faster/saner alternatives to common unix tools and such utilities (made in rust or not) that becomes standard -- or at least easily installable in linux distros and OS X. Not for replacing those tools, but for supplementing them.

Thinking of stuff like fd and:

ripgrep: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep (grep/ag alt)

xsv: https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv (csv tool)

exa: https://the.exa.website/ (ls)

una: https://github.com/jwiegley/una (multi-compression utils wrapper)

tokei: https://github.com/Aaronepower/tokei (loc stats)

And of course this: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils

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