This article spotlights alternative tools to find.
The software featured here is free and open source. All tools provide a command-line interface (CLI) unless otherwise stated.
| Alternatives to find | |
|---|---|
| fd | Simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' |
| fzf | General-purpose command-line fuzzy finder |
| bfind | Minimalistic find using breadth-first crawling |
| ffind | Sane replacement for command line file search |
| friendly-find | Friendly file finder |
| bfs | Breadth-first search for your files |
| fselect | Find files with SQL-like queries |
| treegrep | Pattern matcher frontend or backend |
| findpick | General purpose file picker combining “find” command with a fuzzy finder |
| rawhide | Find files using pretty C expressions |
| scooter | Interactive find-and-replace terminal UI app |
Have we missed any open source alternatives to find? Please let us know!
All the CLI tools in this series.
| Alternatives to CLI tools |
|---|
| age // awk // bc // cal // cat // cd // chmod // cksum // cloc // cmp // compress // cp // cron // curl // cut // date // dd // df // diff // dig // du // fdisk // find // ftp // grep // gzip // hexdump // history // jq // kill // less // locate // ls // lsof // make // man // more // mv / ping // ps // psql // rename // rm // sed // split // ssh // strings // sudo // sysctl // tail // talk // tar // telnet // time // top // touch // traceroute // tree // uname // uniq // uptime // vi // watch // Wget // who // whois // xargs |
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There are find-like utilities that have a GUI. Examples include: findwild and KFind.
How about fselect? It doesn’t intend to be a replacement for find but I think it’s still a good alternative.
Thanks Izzy
fselect is now included.
Can you add treegrep, a CLI that acts as a pattern matcher with or without the help of ripgrep
Added. Thanks Tony.
I’ve used rawhide and findpick, so these should be added to the article.
Good suggestions Tel. Both are now added.