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On Windows, I've had good luck with the search tool Everything.
- And mlocate for Linux.
  
  Or like me obliviously spending cycles trawling through everything.
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  find dir/ -iname "*John*Cena*"
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  grep -rIi "John.*Cena" dir/
  
  spending cycles trawling through everything
  Beats spending cycles indexing everything and never search them.
  
  grep -rIi "John.*Cena" dir/
  I have this sort of thing aliased, with some added --include flags to filter file type (e.g., only match source/script files). Super useful!
  
  Use fd and ripgrep at least. It's not the stone age.
  
  I'm probably using them already if they are aliased to find and grep.
  
  Btw, while I'm here: you might also want to look into eza, fzf, bat, and maybe delta (or icdiff for side-by-side comparison). I'm pretty conservative regarding replacement for classic utils, but these are worth it.
  
  They use different arguments, so unlikely. Though idk if there are wrappers or anything like that.
  They're both easier to use and faster, so it's worth making sure to switch.
  
  obliviously spending cycles trawling through everything.
  Once vs. every time the db gets updated. Database for faster file searching is a HDD relict, imo.
  
  sh
  
  $ time fd -t f locate /usr /usr/bin/fallocate /usr/include/clang/AST/ASTContextAllocate.h /usr/include/qt6/QtQmlCompiler/6.10.0/QtQmlCompiler/private/qresourcerelocater_p.h /usr/include/qt6/QtQml/6.10.0/QtQml/private/qlazilyallocated_p.h /usr/share/doc/libdc1394/html/structfw__cdev__allocate.html ... /usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.79.2-nons/params/htmlhelp.button.locate.xml /usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.4.0/doc/racc-1.8.1/ri/Racc/Grammar/compute_locate-i.ri /usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.4.0/doc/racc-1.8.1/ri/Racc/Sym/locate-i.ri real 0m0.209s user 0m0.283s sys 0m0.663s
  Cut by me, because of qr size limit. fd is from here. Disk is NVME on PCIe3.
  
  plocate is much faster and requires less resources. macOS users should use mdfind instead
- Everything is a required tool for any Windows computer I interact with.
  
  And Wiztree! I really do love that program.
  
  WinDirStat imo is a better alternative - same functionality, much older and open source.
  Wiztree borrows a lot from WinDirStat's interface.
  
  Including like little Spanners to fix it and big spanners to hit it?
- Thanks that was helpful at the right moment!
  
  Happy I could help. It's been everything Windows search is not.
  Additional pro-tip if anyone is still using WinDirStat, Spacemonger, etc.: WizTree is game-changing.

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