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Description:
Simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 10.3.0@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 17, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: cli rust search utility find

Install: brew install fd

About:
fd is a command-line tool that provides a simple, fast, and user-friendly alternative to the standard find utility. Written in Rust, it leverages parallel execution and sensible defaults to deliver significantly faster file system searches. It offers colorized output, smart case sensitivity, and ignores hidden files and patterns by default.

Key Features:

Performance: Utilizes parallel command execution for significantly faster searches compared to find
Sensible Defaults: Colorized output, ignores hidden files and .gitignore patterns automatically
Simplified Syntax: Uses a more intuitive regex-based syntax for searching file paths

Use Cases:

Quickly locating project files or directories in large codebases
Searching for specific file types or patterns within a folder structure
Replacing slow or cumbersome find commands in shell scripts

Alternatives:

find – The standard Unix utility; fd is generally faster and has more intuitive defaults for everyday use
ripgrep (rg) – Focuses on searching file contents rather than file paths, though both are high-performance Rust tools

License: Apache-2.0 OR MIT

Bottles available for: arm64_tahoe, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, arm64_linux, x86_64_linux

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 12, 2025 5:39am		0	VERSION_BUMP	63c6f1e0
Aug 26, 2025 10:58am		0	VERSION_BUMP	87015ffe