What is Reddit's opinion of FSearch?

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I see that you are the author of FSearch that has been mentioned around..

it looks exceptionally well done, and by someone who actually knows whats going on... I am guessing it should be you who should keep up the good work.

you might want to add it to everything linux alternatives

Learned about fsearch only today.

Main differences as I see it is that it is written in C and by an actual programmer, while my little project is python and by someone who just barely learned something to make that shit work...

But at this moment with fast mode enabled(means no substrings), mine to me feels faster and bit more responsive during searches.

Caja might be interesting. It is the MATE file manager, so it is a fork of Nautilus but lacks a few of the "designed for dumbness" so-called features of Gnome 3.

Personally I love Thunar, together with the Fish shell and FSearch and yeah I should try fzf.

As the creator of it, I would say fsearch should get the front stage. Actually done by a programmer in C instead my python script... though it feels slower if you leave icons enabled, as I think its queering the files for mime type to get icons or some shit, instead of just guessing from filename.

also I made this some time ago, though those are mostly well known around linux programs.

Anytime I need to find a file fast, as in, I may not be in the right directory or drive, my go-to is FSearch.

https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch

It scans all your drives and indexes files and folders, so it starts spitting out results as soon as you start typing. Love it!

fsearch is very similar to Everything from the Windows world. Works great.

For the command line, as others have already mentioned, locate and find are what you'd use. Modern alternatives are fd-find and plocate.

fsearch when I want to quickly find some file within the millions of files on my computer.

ncdu when I want to find out what takes up all the space in a folder.

First, you can just add the PPA with the other distro name. If it's a ppa for a single package then there's very little risk. It will work or it won't. At least you won't be manually downloading the deb file. Second you could build it from git source: https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch/wiki/Build-instructions. I'm running disco and it gave me a few errors that I worked around:

• In the apt instal I got "E: Unable to locate package libxml2-util" - I just changed that to libxml2-dev
• In the autoconf.sh step I got some stuff about "Please add the files codeset.m4 gettext.m4 glibc21.m4 iconv.m4 isc-posix.m4 lcmessage.m4 progtest.m4 "
• I just ignored those.

And lastly you could do like someone else suggested and build from source the debian way. I followed this pattern cuz it was short. :-)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/130894/how-to-build-a-debian-ubuntu-package-from-source . So my steps were:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:christian-boxdoerfer/fsearch-daily
• sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/christian-boxdoerfer-ubuntu-fsearch-daily-disco.list (or whatever editor you like)
• In the edit, uncomment the line with 'deb-src' and change all the 'disco' lines to 'cosmic'
• sudo apt update
• The follow the instructions from stack overflow:
• apt-get build-dep fsearch (get needed packages for building)
• cd /tmp (go somewhere safe)
• apt-get source fsearch (get the source code and packages from the PPA)
• cd fsearch-0.1+362+9~ubuntu18.10.1
• Skip this step though -- it's about upstream updates... uupdate ~/Downloads/libdrm-2.4.1.tar.gz
• dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -nc ( build it)

> I run Everything (with the built-in web interface enabled) through Win

I've looked into this, but there are similar tools for linux

eg https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch

though I never got around using them

Hmm, I think it might be a bug with the program I'm using (fsearch). I was doing what you suggested with a file manager but it turns out pcmanfm correctly uses mpv as the default application for the mkv file, but when playing the file with fsearch, it uses Firefox. Very strange, I will submit a bug report to fsearch.