What does this tool provide that I can't get from a wrapper around gnu find?
- It probably have more niceties than a 5min wrapper (color, friendly defaults, etc.)
I've personally used a homemade find wrapper for years, but have now replaced it with `fd` (another find reimplementation). The advantages isn't huge, but I find the niceties I never bothered implementing - well - nice :)
That being said: I did get burned by the default behavior of ignoring hidden files :D
Would've been nice if it by default didn't show hidden matches, but printed on stderr - something like:
$ fd thing
foo/something
...
>searching hidden files - ^C to abort<
>hidden files found (29) - use `--hidden` to show<I am not aperson who just has to use the newest and gratest for the sake of it, but I’d take ripgrep/rg over grep whenever I have the choice.