• BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
    5·
    2 months ago

    Or like me obliviously spending cycles trawling through everything.

    find dir/ -iname "*John*Cena*"

    or

    grep -rIi "John.*Cena" dir/
    • marcos@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

      spending cycles trawling through everything

      Beats spending cycles indexing everything and never search them.

    • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
      2·
      2 months ago

      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!

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
      1·
      2 months ago

      obliviously spending cycles trawling through everything.

      Once vs. every time the db gets updated. Database for faster file searching is a HDD relict, imo.

        • [object Object]@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 months ago

          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.

        • [object Object]@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 months ago

          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.