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FilesFinder – search for files within a given repository

May 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

FilesFinder is a command-line utility that searches for files within a repository while respecting ignore rules.

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pff – Pretty Fast Find

May 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Pretty Fast Find (pff) is a command-line file search utility written in Rust.

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fdf – high performance command line file finder

May 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fdf is a high performance command line file finder written in Rust.

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jet – Just Edit Text

November 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Jet allows you to replace all the substrings matched by specified regular expressions in one or more files.

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scooter is an interactive find-and-replace terminal UI app

March 24, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

scooter is written in Rust.

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rawhide – find files using pretty C expressions

July 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rawhide (rh) lets you search for files on the command line using expressions and user-defined functions.

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findpick – general purpose file picker combining “find” command with a fuzzy finder

July 27, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

findpick is a general purpose file picker combining “find” command with a fuzzy finder. It’s written in Bash.

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fselect – find files with SQL-like queries

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fselect is a command-line utility to find files with SQL-like queries. This is free and open source software written in Rust.

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bfs – breadth-first search for your files

April 27, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bfs is a variant of the UNIX find command that operates breadth-first rather than depth-first. It’s written in C.

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bfind – minimalistic alternative to find

April 27, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bfind is a minimalistic alternative to find that is designed to be efficient that locating files. Written in C.

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ffind – sane replacement for command line file search

April 27, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ffind allows quick and easy recursive search for files in the command line. This is free and open source software.

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friendly-find – friendly file finder

April 27, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

friendly-find is the friendly file finder. It’s meant to be a more usable replacement for find. If you’ve used ack, then ffind is to find as ack is to grep.

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Excellent Utilities: fd – superior alternative to the venerable find

October 5, 2020 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

fd is a utility that searches for files in a directory hierarchy. Here’s our review.

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