That’s your problem, that ain’t a file, boss, that’s a folder.
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.
find dir/ -iname "*John*Cena*"or
grep -rIi "John.*Cena" dir/spending cycles trawling through everything
Beats spending cycles indexing everything and never search them.
Use
fdand ripgrep at least. It’s not the stone age.I’m probably using them already if they are aliased to
findandgrep.Btw, while I’m here: you might also want to look into
eza,fzf,bat, and maybedelta(oricdifffor 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.
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.
$locate %filename%
