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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?

Very happy with

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

thank you!

Does this search file content or jusg path names?

For finding files by name, I use the locate command in terminal

find . -iname “searchword“

grep is life

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

thank you

This worked awesome, so thank you!

https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.kde.kfind

Thank you!

For a long time I was a *m*locate guy.

locate files```

tree -if and grep are another way to go.

or, I’ve also seen some use du as part of their file search strategy. heh.

strange ways.

Another tool to search in terminal is https://github.com/junegunn/fzf .

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

I don’t know, tbh, I only use it for filename searches.

du

they never heard of ncdu?

thank you!

I gave up on search utlities of GUIs after having the same problem with dolphin

ncdu

that’s fine if wanting a tui, like for its intended purpose, rather than something grepable/awkable/sortable/cutable/headable/tailable/etc. like better suited to file search