fd¶

fd is a simple, fast, and user-friendly tool meant to simply perform faster compared to find. It is not meant to completely replace find, but rather give you an easy-to-use alternative that performs slightly faster.

Installation¶

fd can be installed for different Linux distributions using the default package manager, for example,

Debian/Ubuntu based distros¶

sudo apt install fd-find

Fedora (RHEL)¶

sudo dnf install fd-find

Arch based distros¶

sudo pacman -S fd

Usage¶

The simplest usage is to feed the query as arument to fd
```
fd <query> # syntax
fd config # example 
```
Let’s say we want to find all jpg files. We can use the -e flag to filter by file extension:
```
fd -e jpg
```
If we want to exclude some results, you can use the -E flag like this:
```
fd -e pdf -E miniconda3
```
This command will look for all files with pdf extension, and will exclude results from the miniconda3 directory.
If we want to specify a search directory, we simply need to give it as an argument:
```
fd <pattern> <directory>
```
We can use -x or --exec arguments to perform parallel command execution with the search results.
```
fd -e txt -x chmod 644 {}
```

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