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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago (3 children)

On Windows, I've had good luck with the search tool Everything.

[–] Skyline969@lemmy.ca 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

And mlocate for Linux.

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Or like me obliviously spending cycles trawling through everything.

find dir/ -iname "*John*Cena*"

or

grep -rIi "John.*Cena" dir/
[–] marcos@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

spending cycles trawling through everything

Beats spending cycles indexing everything and never search them.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago

grep -rIi "John.*Cena" dir/

I have this sort of thing aliased, with some added --include flags to filter file type (e.g., only match source/script files). Super useful!

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

obliviously spending cycles trawling through everything.

Once vs. every time the db gets updated. Database for faster file searching is a HDD relict, imo.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Use fd and ripgrep at least. It's not the stone age.

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm probably using them already if they are aliased to find and grep.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Btw, while I'm here: you might also want to look into eza, fzf, bat, and maybe delta (or icdiff for side-by-side comparison). I'm pretty conservative regarding replacement for classic utils, but these are worth it.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

They use different arguments, so unlikely. Though idk if there are wrappers or anything like that.

They're both easier to use and faster, so it's worth making sure to switch.

[–] Meron35@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

plocate is much faster and requires less resources. macOS users should use mdfind instead

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) 
$ time fd -t f locate /usr
/usr/bin/fallocate
/usr/include/clang/AST/ASTContextAllocate.h
/usr/include/qt6/QtQmlCompiler/6.10.0/QtQmlCompiler/private/qresourcerelocater_p.h
/usr/include/qt6/QtQml/6.10.0/QtQml/private/qlazilyallocated_p.h
/usr/share/doc/libdc1394/html/structfw__cdev__allocate.html
...
/usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.79.2-nons/params/htmlhelp.button.locate.xml
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.4.0/doc/racc-1.8.1/ri/Racc/Grammar/compute_locate-i.ri
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.4.0/doc/racc-1.8.1/ri/Racc/Sym/locate-i.ri

real	0m0.209s
user	0m0.283s
sys	0m0.663s

Cut by me, because of qr size limit. fd is from here. Disk is NVME on PCIe3.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Everything is a required tool for any Windows computer I interact with.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And Wiztree! I really do love that program.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

WinDirStat imo is a better alternative - same functionality, much older and open source.

Wiztree borrows a lot from WinDirStat's interface.

[–] essell@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Including like little Spanners to fix it and big spanners to hit it?

[–] Carvex@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thanks that was helpful at the right moment!

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Happy I could help. It's been everything Windows search is not.

Additional pro-tip if anyone is still using WinDirStat, Spacemonger, etc.: WizTree is game-changing.