Finding files faster than your friends

Outline

We begin with the GNU family of tools (ls, tree, find, grep) and their hipster cousins (exa, fd, rg)

• The GNU family
  • ls
    • https://lib.rs/crates/ffcnt
  • tree
  • git ls-files
    • https://cj.rs//blog/git-ls-files-is-faster-than-fd-and-find/
    • HN Discussion
      • How could we create an everything clone on Linux?
      • https://github.com/rflament/loggedfs
      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-structured_file_system
  • find
  • grep
• Their rusty cousins
  • exa / lsd
  • fd
  • rg + hgrep, ugrep
• Indexed search
  • Everything on Windows/NTFS

  • Everything for ext4

  • The locate family
    • rlocate & its kernel shenanigans
    • lolcate-rs
  • loki: our own custom locate tool
    • Julia’s post, twitter discussion
    • fd, rg, bat, fzf
• Code search
  • ctags
  • LxR: https://lxr.sourceforge.io/en/index.php
    • LxRng