Is it me, or does Linux Mint have terrible file search?

QuantumTickle@reddthat.com · 4 months

I search for files, and it never seems to find them. Plus it only does one drive at a time, and not just searches my external drives. Any suggestions?

jlow (he / him)@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 months

Very happy with

http://cboxdoerfer.github.io/fsearch/

QuantumTickle@reddthat.com · 4 months

thank you!

QuantumTickle@reddthat.com · 4 months

This worked awesome, so thank you!

Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com · 4 months

I use Kfind https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.kde.kfind

QuantumTickle@reddthat.com · 4 months

Thank you!

n0p1lls@piefed.zip · 4 months

I use the fd (or fdfind in Debian) tool to search my files. I think it’s faster and easier to remember.

fd in Github

QuantumTickle@reddthat.com · 4 months

thank you

Alavi@programming.dev · 4 months

If you’re a GUI guy, catfish is good. If you’re a term guy, fzf, rg, fd are very fast and powerful. I search for files in / (meaning EVERYTHING) and tge results are there in less than 10 seconds.

This blog post has some example usages, read the entries for fzf, rg and fd.

https://alavi.me/blog/cool-cli-tui/#fd

QuantumTickle@reddthat.com · 4 months

thank you!