fd

*fd* is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to [*find*](https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/). While it does not seek to mirror all of *find*'s powerful functionality, it provides sensible (opinionated) defaults for [80%](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle) of the use cases. ## Features * 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[\*](http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/options.html#'smartcase'). * Ignores hidden directories and files, by default. * Ignores patterns from your `.gitignore`, by default. * Regular expressions. * Unicode-awareness. * The command name is *50%* shorter[\*](https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher) than `find` :-). * Parallel command execution with a syntax similar to GNU Parallel.