Another great tool is Everything https://www.voidtools.com for Windows.
It's searching files with an ease that you start question yourself why windows search is so fucking retarded
It's searching files with an ease that you start question yourself why windows search is so fucking retarded
I have 1.3 million files on my C: drive, and it can find any of them (or any matching subset) as fast as I can type.
It has a ton of options, but I have most of them on the defaults. Here are the ones I like to customize in Tools/Options:
In General, turn on "Check for updates at startup". ("Start Everything at system startup" should be on by default.)
In View, turn on "Show row mouseover".
In Keyboard, set "New window Hotkey" to Win+Alt+F (or any other key combo you like, but this one is pretty convenient).
And related to the current topic, Everything does have a CLI and an SDK.
Now I use osx and sadly finding files seems to be an unsolved problem...
Other good options are Keypirinha (with a python powered calculator) or Wox + Everything. Although Wox solution uses easily 150K memory.