Find

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: find

This article spotlights alternative tools to find.

Man page for the find command

The software featured here is free and open source. All tools provide a command-line interface (CLI) unless otherwise stated.

Alternatives to find
fdSimple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
fzfGeneral-purpose command-line fuzzy finder
bfindMinimalistic find using breadth-first crawling
ffindSane replacement for command line file search
friendly-findFriendly file finder
bfsBreadth-first search for your files
Have we missed any open source alternatives to find? Please let us know!
0
Other alternative tools to findx

All the CLI tools in this series.

Alternatives to CLI tools
bc // cat // cd // cloc // cp // cut // df // diff // dig // du // find // grep // history // kill // locate // ls // lsof // man // more // mv / ping // rm // sed // split // sudo // sysctl // tar // top // traceroute // tree // watch // whois

Best Free and Open Source SoftwareRead our complete collection of recommended free and open source software. Our curated compilation covers all categories of software.

The software collection forms part of our series of informative articles for Linux enthusiasts. There are hundreds of in-depth reviews, open source alternatives to proprietary software from large corporations like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, IBM, Cisco, Oracle, and Autodesk.

There are also fun things to try, hardware, free programming books and tutorials, and much more.

There are find-like utilities that have a GUI. Examples include: findwild and KFind.

Subscribe
Notify of
guest

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

0 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments