Fd

2025-09-28

fd is an alternative to find. It's parallelised directory traversal makes it very fast.

Website

https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

Tldr

~ tldr fd

fd

An alternative to `find`.
Aims to be faster and easier to use than `find`.
More information: <https://github.com/sharkdp/fd#how-to-use>.

- Recursively find files matching a specific pattern in the current directory:
    fd "string|regex"

- Find files that begin with a specific string:
    fd "^string"

- Find files with a specific extension:
    fd [-e|--extension] txt

- Find files in a specific directory:
    fd "string|regex" path/to/directory

- Include ignored and hidden files in the search:
    fd [-H|--hidden] [-I|--no-ignore] "string|regex"

- Execute a command on each search result returned:
    fd "string|regex" [-x|--exec] command