fd

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.

Usage

Usage: fd [OPTIONS] [pattern] [path]...

Options

Option	Description
-H, --hidden	Include hidden directories and files in the search results
-I, --no-ignore	Show search results from files and directories that would otherwise be ignored by .gitignore, .ignore, .fdignore
-u, --unrestricted	Perform an unrestricted search, including ignored and hidden files. This is an alias for --no-ignore --hidden.
-s, --case-sensitive	Perform a case-sensitive search. By default, fd uses case-insensitive searches, unless the pattern contains an uppercase character (smart case).
-i, --ignore-case	Perform a case-insensitive search. By default, fd uses case-insensitive searches, unless the pattern contains an uppercase character (smart case).
-l, --list-details	Use a detailed listing format like ls -l. This is basically an alias for --exec-batch ls -l with some additional ls options. This can be used to see more metadata, to show symlink targets and to achieve a deterministic sort order.
-L, --follow	By default, fd does not descend into symlinked directories. Using this flag, symbolic links are also traversed. Flag can be overriden with --no-follow.
-0, --print0	Separate search results by the null character (instead of newlines). Useful for piping results to xargs.
-d, --max-depth <depth>	Limit the directory traversal to a given depth. By default, there is no limit on the search depth.
--min-depth <depth>	Only show search results starting at the given depth.
--exact-depth <depth>	Only show search results at the exact given depth. This is an alias for --min-depth <depth> --max-depth <depth>.
-E, --exclude <pattern>	Exclude files/directories that match the given glob pattern. This overrides any other ignore logic. Multiple exclude patterns can be specified.
-t, --type <filetype>	Filter the search by type: - f or file: regular files - d or directory: directories - l or symlink: symbolic links - s or socket: socket - p or pipe: named pipe (FIFO) - x or executable: executables - e or empty: empty files or directories This option can be specified more than once to include multiple file types.
-e, --extension <ext>	(Additionally) filter search results by their file extension. Multiple allowable file extensions can be specified.
-S, --size <size>	Limit results based on the size of files using the format <+-><NUM><UNIT>. - +: file size must be greater than or equal to this - -: file size must be less than or equal to this If neither + nor - is specified, file size must be exactly equal to this.
--changed-within <date/dur>	Filter results based on the file modification time. Files with modification times greater than the argument are returned. The argument can be provided as a specific point in time (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS) or as a duration (10h, 1d, 35min). If the time is not specified, it defaults to 00:00:00. --change-newer-than, --newer, or --changed-after can be used as aliases. Examples: - --changed-within 2weeks - --change-newer-than '2018-10-27 10:00:00' - --newer 2018-10-27 - --changed-after 1day
--changed-before <date/dur>	Filter results based on the file modification time. Files with modification times less than the argument are returned.
-o, --owner <user:group>	Filter files by their user and/or group. Format: [(user/uid)][:(group/gid)]. Either side is optional. Precede either side with a ! to exclude files instead. Examples: - --owner john - --owner :students - --owner '!john:students'
-x, --exec <cmd>...	Execute a command for each search result in parallel (use --threads=1 for sequential command execution). All positional arguments following --exec are considered to be arguments to the command - not to fd. It is therefore recommended to place the -x/--exec option last. The following placeholders are substituted before the command is executed: - {}: path (of the current search result) - {/}: basename - {//}: parent directory - {.}: path without file extension - {/.}: basename without file extension If no placeholder is present, an implicit {} at the end is assumed.
-X, --exec-batch <cmd>...	Execute the given command once, with all search results as arguments. One of the following placeholders is substituted before the command is executed: - {}: path (of all search results) - {/}: basename - {//}: parent directory - {.}: path without file extension - {/.}: basename without file extension If no placeholder is present, an implicit {} at the end is assumed.
--batch-size <size>	Maximum number of arguments to pass to the command given with -X. If the number of results is greater than the given size, the command given with -X is run again with remaining arguments. A batch size of zero means there is no limit (default), but note that batching might still happen due to OS restrictions on the maximum length of command lines.
--ignore-file <path>	Add a custom ignore-file in .gitignore format. These files have a low precedence.
-j, --threads <num>	Set number of threads to use for searching & executing (default: number of available CPU cores)
--max-results <count>	Limit the number of search results to count and quit immediately.
-1	Limit the search to a single result and quit immediately. This is an alias for --max-results=1.
-q, --quiet	When the flag is present, the program does not print anything and will return with an exit code of 0 if there is at least one match. Otherwise, the exit code will be 1.
--one-file-system	By default, fd will traverse the file system tree as far as other options dictate. With this flag, fd ensures that it does not descend into a different file system than the one it started in.