Comments on: Fd – The Best Alternative to ‘Find’ Command for Quick File Searching https://www.tecmint.com/fd-alternative-to-find-command/ Tecmint - Linux Howtos, Tutorials, Guides, News, Tips and Tricks. Thu, 13 Jul 2023 09:43:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ravi Saive https://www.tecmint.com/fd-alternative-to-find-command/comment-page-1/#comment-1866289 Tue, 23 Aug 2022 06:19:35 +0000 https://www.tecmint.com/?p=31907#comment-1866289 In reply to An R.

@Anmichel,

I have updated the fd installation instructions…

]]> By: An R https://www.tecmint.com/fd-alternative-to-find-command/comment-page-1/#comment-1865093 Sat, 20 Aug 2022 19:25:51 +0000 https://www.tecmint.com/?p=31907#comment-1865093 Installation commands are outdated, better to use a native package management system:

Follow this link: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd#installation

]]> By: Andy Pahne https://www.tecmint.com/fd-alternative-to-find-command/comment-page-1/#comment-1208863 Mon, 22 Jul 2019 12:53:32 +0000 https://www.tecmint.com/?p=31907#comment-1208863 Starting with Ubuntu 19.04, the package ‘fd-find‘ can be installed the usual way. There is no need to download and install the deb file manually.

]]> By: Marin Todorov https://www.tecmint.com/fd-alternative-to-find-command/comment-page-1/#comment-1104915 Tue, 26 Feb 2019 05:11:37 +0000 https://www.tecmint.com/?p=31907#comment-1104915 Hi,

Link to developer’s benchmark results were provided in the article, you probably missed it. I am including the link once more:

https://github.com/sharkdp/fd#benchmark

]]> By: Z https://www.tecmint.com/fd-alternative-to-find-command/comment-page-1/#comment-1104887 Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:08:44 +0000 https://www.tecmint.com/?p=31907#comment-1104887 Can you back up the claims that it’s faster than the original ‘find’?

If not – this is just a bunch of code and another out of district piece of software to maintain yourself.

Looks like it was written so that the author doesn’t need to learn ‘find’ options and/or brag about a nearly useless piece of software.

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