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Fsearch, a fast file search utility for Unix-like systems

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Re: Fsearch, a fast file search utility for Unix-like systems

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Post by atoav »

drekipus wrote: post #5
dzek69 wrote: post #3

This is great tool, I use it everyday, but far from it's Windows based original Everything. Also this is anbandoned apparently, which makes me extra sad, because it lacks few crucial features like: - being able to just remove a file from the index if you delete it from the app directly (insted it shows a window how it "soon" gonna be implemented) - while i understand that indexing service is more complex job - at lea…

rg or fd?

rg if you want to find stuff in files

fd if you want to find stuff in filenames

fzf for when you want a fuzzy menu type of search on top of this.

I can't recommend fzf enough you can do some really powerful stuff with it. If you don't know it: it gives you a fuzzy search on things you pipe into it. It is powerful because it also can do things like running special commands ("preview") on the currently selected entry/line and allows for displaying the output in a separate pane.

So you could build a thing that e.g. let's you search and multiselect (enqueue) your music collection and on each entry display audio metadata using a custom script.

Or a blazingly fast PDF-content searcher that opens the PDF in the end. The possibilities are endless.

Edit: Here a short video showing my basic git log alias: https://youtu.be/9W27D8lrn-s

    gl: aliased to git log --all --pretty=oneline --pretty=format:"%Cgreen%h%Creset %s %Cred%d%Creset" --color=always | fzf --ansi --preview 'git show --pretty=medium --color=always $(echo {} | cut -d" " -f1)' | cut -d" " -f1

Re: Fsearch, a fast file search utility for Unix-like systems

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Post by berkes »

QuadrupleA wrote: post #38
ivanjermakov wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What made you to give up?

Too much research and extremely low level troubleshooting required (i.e. source code reading) to get things working. Especially around wayland, multi-monitor, multi-GPU, Nvidia, etc. I hate what Microsoft has been doing with Windows, but Linux just isn't practical for my setup yet.

You are either extremely unlucky or chose a very strange setup.

The problems you describe were common in early 2000s, but haven't been common in Linux desktop for a decade or so.

For those reading above and thinking "I'll skip Linux, if that's the current status": it's not. Just pick Ubuntu LTS. Use it on common hardware (e.g not bleeding edge) and stick with the defaults. Don't try to make it exactly like your Mac or Windows machine but lean into how it does things. They are different . They may be uncomfortable. Then, once familiar feel free to tinker and hack.

I'm on Linux since 1996. I've hacked and tweaked everything in my younger years. Now I'm on a boring, hardly configured Ubuntu LTS. Well, my she'll and nvim are tuned beyond recognition, I guess. The rest: boring.

Re: Fsearch, a fast file search utility for Unix-like systems

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Post by pjmlp »

QuadrupleA wrote: post #38
ivanjermakov wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What made you to give up?

Too much research and extremely low level troubleshooting required (i.e. source code reading) to get things working. Especially around wayland, multi-monitor, multi-GPU, Nvidia, etc. I hate what Microsoft has been doing with Windows, but Linux just isn't practical for my setup yet.

I feel you, as subscriber from Linux Journal during their print lifetime, I eventually found peace in Windows 7 and later, alongside desktop VMs, than ensuring everything on a laptop does indeed work properly.

Even Linux branded laptops keep having issues, example on the one I still have around, I never got around fixing it dropping wlan connections, so for large OS updates it needs to be plugged on the LAN.

Re: Fsearch, a fast file search utility for Unix-like systems

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Post by pjmlp »

berkes wrote: post #56
QuadrupleA wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Too much research and extremely low level troubleshooting required (i.e. source code reading) to get things working. Especially around wayland, multi-monitor, multi-GPU, Nvidia, etc. I hate what Microsoft has been doing with Windows, but Linux just isn't practical for my setup yet.

You are either extremely unlucky or chose a very strange setup. The problems you describe were common in early 2000s, but haven't been common in Linux desktop for a decade or so. For those reading above and thinking "I'll skip Linux, if that's the current status": it's not. Just pick Ubuntu LTS. Use it on common hardware (e.g not bleeding edge) and stick with the defaults. Don't try to make it exactly like your Mac o…

They are quite common on laptops, here is a second anecdote on the matter.

We even have an internal how-to about what works and what not, for those that want to try their path outside the Thinkpad/Windows, Macbook official IT path.

Re: Fsearch, a fast file search utility for Unix-like systems

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Post by eviks »

aikinai wrote: post #25

For anyone looking for a Mac equivalent, there's GoToFile[0]. As far as I've seen, this is the only app for Mac that doesn't just reuse Spotlight search (which I find to be terrible). I looked for exactly this type of app for years before finding it, and when I did, it didn't seem real with the old-fashioned website and zero mentions on sites like HN. But I can assure that it works great and it's maintained. I just w…

Foxtrot Search (expensive) uses its own index and also indexes content, not just names

There are a couple of other filename-only apps with own index, but don't remember now which of the alternatives do that (HoudahSpot?)

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