fd

fd is a program to find entries in your filesystem. It is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find. While it does not aim to support all of find’s powerful functionality, it provides sensible (opinionated) defaults for a majority of use cases.
— Github

Commands

Search query can be a string or a regular expression.

# Simple search:
fd <search query> <directory>
 
# Searching for a particular file extension:
fd -e <file extension> <search query>
 
# Searching for a particular file name:
fd -g <file name>.<file extension>
 
# Search for hidden and ignored files:
fd -H <search query>
 
# Excluding specific files or directories:
fd -E <file or directories which should be excluded> <search query>
 
# Include ignored and hidden files in the search:
fd -H -I "string|regex"
 
# Execute a command on each search result returned:
# {} is placeholder for filename, check `man fd` "--format" section for more
# information.
fd "string|regex" -x command {}
fd -d 1 -e avi -x ffmpeg -i {} -vcodec libx264 -acodec aac {.}.mp4

External links

• How to use fd