Many Linux programmers use the find command every single day of their career. But find gives a limited set of filesystem entries, and if you have to do a large set of find operations, it's not even very fast. So instead, I prefer to use the Rust fd command because it provides sensible defaults that work for most use cases.
  • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
    8·
    3 years ago

    I love how many rust tools are replacing these old C ones. exa for ls, ripgrep for grep, fd for find, dust for du, btm for htop…

    • dandelion@lemmy.mlOP
      6·
      3 years ago

      Cheers for that list. Nice. I’d like to use exa, rg, fd more often, and install everywhere.

  • someone@lemmy.ml
    3·
    3 years ago

    Uhhh… why? Stuff like find, ls and cat aren’t supposed to be feature rich you know.

    • Oue@lemmy.ml
      3·
      3 years ago

      The title should have been “consider switching”. That said ripgrep (one example of a unix tool taken next-level) is literally a game changer.