this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2025
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

fd is a massive upgrade to find - I appreciate the better UI and skipping hidden files is usually a big time saver (although I do find myself needing -H or specifying the directory a fair amount).

[–] sip 2 points 6 days ago

yeah, I keep forgetting to do -H every f-ing time and have to run the comand a second time, tracking the cursor through the line..

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Slightly off topic: How do you do so many posts in one day? I count 57 different posts for Mar 28

[–] Kissaki 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

What do you mean? Technically, the act of posting? Finding the things to post? Finding relevancy? Finding the time to do so?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

All of it honestly. I think it is impressive that they manage to post so many different things.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

fd seems to be nice and I hate the syntax of find. However I only ever use it for one thing - searching a file recursively, often with a wildcard for files with a certain extension, that's it. I guess I could do that with an alias or a small script as well..

[–] zygo_histo_morpheus 3 points 6 days ago

fd is a lot faster than find. This might not matter if you're searching through small directories but if you're working in a very large project it does make things a lot nicer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I find that Television complements fd nicely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

How does it compare to fzf?

Also, fd already means "file descriptor".