sharkdp/fd

Features

• Added --size filter option, see #276 (@stevepentland, @JonathanxD and @alexmaco)
• Added --type empty (or -t e) to search for empty files and/or directories, see #273

Changes

• With the new version, .gitignore files will only be respected in Git repositories, not outside.
• A few performance improvements for --type searches, see 641976c and 50a2bab

Other

• Starting with this release, we will offer pre-built ARM binaries, see #244
• Added instructions on how to use fd with emacs, see #282 (@redguardtoo)
• fd is now in the official openSUSE repositories, see #275 (@avindra)
• fd is now available via MacPorts, see #291 (@raimue)

Features

• Added --type executable (or -t x) to search for executable files only, see #246 (@PramodBisht)
• Added support for .fdignore files, see #156 and #241.
• Added --ignore-file option to add custom ignore files, see #156.
• Suggest --fixed-strings on invalid regular expressions, see #234 (@PramodBisht)
• Detect when user supplied path instead of pattern, see #235.

Changes

• .ignore and .rgignore files are not parsed anymore. Use .fdignore files
  or add custom files via --ignore-file instead.
• Updated to regex-syntax 0.5 (@cuviper)

Bugfixes

• Properly normalize absolute paths, see #268
• Invalid utf8 filenames displayed when -e is used, see #250
• If --type is used, fifos/sockets/etc. are always shown, see #260

Other

• Packaging:
  • The Arch Linux package is now simply called fd.
  • There is now a fd ebuild for Gentoo Linux.
  • There is a scoop package for fd (Windows).
  • There is a Chocolatey package for fd (Windows).
  • There is a Fedora copr package for fd.

Features

• Files with multiple extensions can now be found via --extension/-e, see #214 (@althonos)

  > fd -e tar.gz

• Added new -F/--fixed-strings/--literal option that treats the pattern as a literal string instead of a regular expression, see #157

  > fd -F 'file(1).txt'

• Allow -exec to work as --exec, see #226 (@stevepentland)

Bugfixes

• Fixed Ctrl-C handling when using --exec, see #224 (@Doxterpepper)

• Fixed wrong file owner for files in deb package, see #213

Other

• Replaced old gif by a fancy new SVG screencast (@marionebl)
• Updated benchmark results (fd has become faster in the meantime!). There is a new repository that hosts several benchmarking scripts for fd: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd-benchmarks

Features

• Support for filtering by multiple file extensions and multiple file types, see #199 and #177
  (@tkadur).

  For example, it's possible to search for C++ source or header files:

  > fd -e cpp -e c -e cxx -e h pattern

Changes

• The size of the output buffer (for sorting search results) is now limited to 1000 entries. This
  improves the search speed significantly if there are a lot of results, see #191 (@sharkdp).

Bugfixes

• Fix a bug where long-running searches could not be killed via Ctrl-C, see #210 (@Doxterpepper)
• fd's exit codes are now in accordance with Unix standards, see #201 (@Doxterpepper)

Other

• Bash, zsh and fish completion should now work with the Ubuntu .deb packages, see #195 and #209
  (@tmccombs and @sharkdp)
• There is a new section on how to set up fzf to use fd in the
  README, see #168.

Features

• Support for multiple search paths, see #166 (@Doxterpepper)
• Added --no-ignore-vcs option to disable .gitignore and other VCS ignore files,
  without disabling .ignore files - see #156 (@ptzz).

Bugfixes

• Handle terminal signals, see #128 (@Doxterpepper)
• Fixed hang on --exec when user input was required, see #178 and #193 (@reima)

Other

• Debian packages are now created via Travis CI and should be available for this and all
  future releases (@tmccombs).
• fd is now available on Void Linux (@maxice8)
• The minimum required Rust version is now 1.20

Thanks

@Doxterpepper deserves a special mention for his great work that is included in this release and
for the support in ticket discussions and concerning Travis CI fixes. Thank you very much!

Thanks also go out to @tmccombs for the work on Debian packages and for reviewing a lot of pull requests!

Changes

• The --exec/-x option does not spawn an intermediate shell anymore. This improves the
  performance of parallel command execution and fixes a whole class of (present and potentially
  future) problems with shell escaping. The drawback is that shell commands cannot directly be
  called with --exec. See #155 for the full discussion. These changes have been implemented by
  @reima (Thanks!).

Bugfixes

• --exec does not escape cmd.exe metacharacters on Windows (see #155, as above).

Other

• fd is now available in the FreeBSD ports (@andoriyu)
• The minimal rustc version is now checked when building with cargo, see #164 (@matematikaadit)
• The output directory for the shell completion files is created if it does not exist (@andoriyu)

Features

• Added new --exec, -x option for parallel command execution (@mmstick, see #84 and #116). See the corresponding README section for an introduction.
• Auto-disable color output on unsupported Windows shells like cmd.exe (@iology, see #129)
• Added the --exclude, -X option to suppress certain files/directories in the search results
  (see #89).
• Added ripgrep aliases -u and -uu for --no-ignore and --no-ignore --hidden, respectively
  (@unsignedint, see #92)
• Added -i, --ignore-case (@iology, see #95)
• Made smart case really smart (@reima, see #103)
• Added RedoxOS support (@goyox86, see #131)

Changes

• The dot . can now match newlines in file names (@iology, see #111)
• The short --type argument for symlinks has been changed from s to l (@jcpetkovich, see #83)

Bugfixes

• Various improvements in root-path and symlink handling (@iology, see #82, #107, and #113)
• Fixed absolute path handling on Windows (@reima, #93)
• Fixed: current directory not included when using relative path (see #81)
• Fixed --type behavior for unknown file types (@iology, see #150)
• Some fixes around --exec (@iology, see #142)

Other

• Major updates and bugfixes to our continuous integration and deployment tooling on Travis
  (@matematikaadit, see #149, #145, #133)
• Code style improvements & automatic style checking via rustfmt on Travis (@Detegr, see #99)
• Added a man page (@pickfire, see #77)
• fd has been relicensed under the dual license MIT/Apache-2.0 (@Detegr, see #105)
• Major refactorings and code improvements (Big thanks to @gsquire, @reima, @iology)
• First version of CONTRIBUTING guidelines
• There is now a Nix package (@mehandes)
• fd is now in the official Arch Linux repos (@cassava)
• Improved tooling around shell completion files (@ImbaKnugel, see #124)
• Updated tutorial in the README
• The minimum required version of Rust has been bumped to 1.19.

Thanks

A lot of things have happened since the last release and I'd like to thank all contributors for their great support. I'd also like to thank those that have contributed by reporting bugs and by posting feature requests.

I'd also like to take this chance to say a special Thank You to a few people that have stood out in one way or another: To @iology, for contributing a multitude of bugfixes, improvements and new features. To @reima and @Detegr for their continuing great support. To @mmstick, for implementing the most advanced new feature of fd. And to @matematikaadit for the CI/tooling upgrades.

Features

• Added filtering by file extension, for example fd -e txt, see #56 (@reima)
• Add option to force colored output: --color always, see #49 (@Detegr)
• Generate Shell completions for Bash, ZSH, Fish and Powershell, see #64 (@ImbaKnugel)
• Better & extended --help text (@abaez and @Detegr)
• Proper Windows support, see #70

Changes

• The integration tests have been re-written in Rust ✨, making them platform-independent and easily callable via cargo test - see #65 (many thanks to @reima!)
• New tutorial in the README (@deg4uss3r)
• Reduced number of stat syscalls for each result from 3 to 1, see #36.
• Enabled Appveyor CI

Features

• Added file type filtering, e.g. find --type directory or find -t f (@Exitium)