sharkdp/fd
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Covered in week 2026-W31 · the 2026-07 report
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
What fd is
fd is a program to find entries in your filesystem. It is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find. While it does not aim to support all of find's powerful functionality, it provides sensible (opinionated) defaults for a majority of use cases.
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Transcript
Finding a buried file means typing cryptic regex patterns and watching your terminal crawl. fd scans your entire codebase in milliseconds with simple patterns, colored matches, and automatic case-insensitivity—no flags memorized. Over 43,000 developers use this Rust-powered tool that's up to 20x faster than the original. What's the most frustrating file search you've wrestled with?