fd-dired

About

“fd-dired” is to run the fd https://github.com/sharkdp/fd command and output the result to dired mode, as similar as “find-dired”.

It is very useful tool if we want to operate specific files together which are not in same folder.

[2020-12-29 Tue] I found there is already an elisp package https://github.com/yqrashawn/fd-dired also named “fd-dired”, but the implementation is different.

Run the command “fd-dired”

1. Input the fd comand arguments (or with “C-u” to specify the initial directory or use the current working directly)

   

2. The result will be in dired mode, as same as “find-dired”

   

3. Run from eshell command

   

4. Run from helm-find-files

   

Installation

pre-require

Please intall https://github.com/sharkdp/fd firstly, and make sure the command “fd” in the system path.

install

Clone this git repo to “${user-emacs-directory}/packages/fd-dired”, and add folowing lines to Emacs config file:

(use-package fd-dired
  :defer t
  :ensure nil ; it is github package
  ;; If the path is relative, it is expanded within `user-emacs-directory'
  :load-path "packages/fd-dired"
  :init
  (let ((pkg-name "fd-dired"))
    (ignore-errors
      (package-generate-autoloads pkg-name
                                  (expand-file-name (concat "packages/" pkg-name)
                                                    user-emacs-directory)))
    (load (concat pkg-name "-autoloads.el")))
  )

Usage

1. in “M-x”, run the command “fd-dired”, or with “C-u” to specify the directory.
2. in eshell, run the command “fd”
3. in helm-find-files, select the action “find dired by fd”