til/unix/find-files-with-fd.md

Find Files With fd

The fd command is an open-source utility written in Rust. It is a fast and user-friendly way to find files -- as compared to the standard find command.

You can recursively look in the current directory for a file with git in the name like so:

$ fd git

If you have a .gitignore file, it will ignore those files and directories by default.

Providing a second argument, fd will start its recursive search from that directory.

$ fd git ~

Here, fd will look for filenames with git everywhere within my home directory.

You can brew install fd to get the command and man fd for more details.