A fast and user-friendly alternative to the find command, written in Rust. fd provides intuitive syntax, regex and glob support, colorized output, parallel execution, and automatic .gitignore awareness.
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name: "fd Fast File Finder CLI"
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description: "A fast and user-friendly alternative to the find command, written in Rust. fd provides intuitive syntax, regex and glob support, colorized output, parallel execution, and automatic .gitignore awareness."
github_stars: 42280
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/sharkdp/fd"
category: "Developer Tools"
framework: "Claude Code"
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github_repo: "sharkdp/fd"
github_stars: 42280
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# fd Fast File Finder CLI
A fast and user-friendly alternative to the find command, written in Rust. fd provides intuitive syntax, regex and glob support, colorized output, parallel execution, and automatic .gitignore awareness.
## Installation
Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- Make sure that $HOME/.local/bin is in your $PATH.
- brew install fd
- npm install -g fd-find
- cargo install fd-find
Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- Software/python/imdb-ratings/netflix-details.py
Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- First, to get an overview of all available command line options, you can either run
- run *fd* with a single argument: the search pattern. For example, assume that you want to find an
- unzip file1.zip and unzip backup/file2.zip. The two unzip processes run in parallel
- Source: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sharkdp/fd/HEAD/README.md
## Source
- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/fd-fast-file-finder-cli/)