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Finally, a Linux finder tool I can use (blog.raduzaharia.com)
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[–] Zykino@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

I'm with the others: fd default syntax is easier to remember.

And for the interactive search I'm using skim. With it I cd to the dir I want and Alt t to trigger fuzzy finding. There are also bindings to search for dir or in the history. The neat part is that results are inserted as is in the command line, no need to xargs or copy them. It also make the history look like I always know where the files I want are when in reality they are just fuzzy-found