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2w ago

I suck at naming anything

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That's your problem, that ain't a file, boss, that's a folder.
- Is this a joke I'm too much of a Linux user to understand? (I use Arch btw.)
  
  It's a folder icon not a file icon
  
  The difference between find -type f and find -type d

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.
  undefined
  
  find dir/ -iname "*John*Cena*"
  or
  undefined
  
  grep -rIi "John.*Cena" dir/
  
  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.
  
  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.

I don't know why the file search on Windows sucks this much but, yeah... I can be looking at the fucking file I want, search for its exact name, and get zero results.
- No problem - just do a quick overview of the search function code, find a bug, submit a PR fix, and then wake up and remember that we're talking about M$
- Is Everything still a thing?
  
  Absolutely and it's my primary way to search for anything

Test.txt isn't descriptive enough?
- I literally have like 5 of these in my home directory…

$locate %filename%

I get it, because you See Nah

This is why everything gets put into their own directory branch... and why I sometimes forget my pokemon fan games are for some reason in my Ankama folder for whatever reason.

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