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minus-squarenous@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-22 months agoAlso if you are looking for a replacement for find that is not a full tui then take a look at fd which works more like what the author expected from the find commad - fd <pattern>.
minus-square𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 months agoPlus, IIRC fd does breadth-first search, which leads to faster finds in the most common cases. I’ve been corrected. fd doesn’t do this; other find replacements exist that do, though.
minus-squaremke@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoI don’t think so, where did you get that? Last I checked, they weren’t interested in adding it. That’s why tools like bfs exist.
minus-square𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoOh. I’m just straight up wrong about that; I thought I’d read that about it back when I first started using it regularly. I’m just attributing it to some other tool. Bad info, sorry!
Also if you are looking for a replacement for find that is not a full tui then take a look at fd which works more like what the author expected from the find commad -
fd <pattern>.Plus, IIRC fd does breadth-first search, which leads to faster finds in the most common cases.I’ve been corrected. fd doesn’t do this; other
findreplacements exist that do, though.I don’t think so, where did you get that? Last I checked, they weren’t interested in adding it. That’s why tools like bfs exist.
Oh. I’m just straight up wrong about that; I thought I’d read that about it back when I first started using it regularly.
I’m just attributing it to some other tool. Bad info, sorry!
It’s cool, thanks for correcting.