fd

Author: David Peter

Alternative to: find

License: MIT

Language: Rust

Page updated: 2026-03-15

fd is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.

While it does not seek to mirror all of find's powerful functionality, it provides sensible (opinionated) defaults for 80% of the use cases.

Convenient syntax: fd PATTERN instead of find -iname 'PATTERN'
Colorized terminal output (similar to ls)
It's fast
Smart case: the search is case-insensitive by default. It switches to case-sensitive if the pattern contains an uppercase character
Ignores hidden directories and files, by default
Ignores patterns from your .gitignore, by default
Regular expressions
Unicode-awareness
Parallel command execution with a syntax similar to GNU Parallel

Demo