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Is anyone else bothered by the fact that by default it ignores a lot of folders? I use `find` when I'm like 'I just want to know where on my system this is, wherever it might be'

I know fd has options to not ignore things, but I can never remember them, so I just go back to find because I know it'll search everything.

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I actually prefer it. It's very similar to ripgrep's default search. I do occasionally want to find something in a .gitignore, or other hidden directory, but I don't mind taking the time to `rg/fd --help` and add the flag to include hidden directories.

Same thing that drives me crazy with Windows built-in file search. The Windows one ignores AppData, which is where everything gets stashed these days.

I completely dumped the windows search and only use voidtool's Everything when I am on a Windows box.

It can search multiple indexed NTFS drives in miliseconds. Indexing is usually a few seconds since it works directly on the NTFS structures. (and it integrates with Total Commander)

You should check out void tools search everything!

Same, this is why I haven't fully converted to lots of these newer tools. If I have to remember a bunch of special flags to make them look at the files I need them to, their advantage is lost. I'm better off using the originals and solidifying those flags in my muscle memory since at least those tools will be on any system I use. I do use ripgrep on occasion but not very often.

ripgrep has the same default behavior.

You just want `fd -u`. Or in ripgrep's case, `rg -uuu`.

`fd`, I believe, got `-u` from ripgrep. And I can say that ripgrep got its `-u` from `ag`.

That’s a feature, and one of the reasons I prefer it. When I want to find a file in a git repo, say, there’s no need looking inside .git most of the time. Sometimes there is: if I don’t remember `fd -u`, there’s good old find there for me. But that’s almost never what I want to do, so fd’s defaults are sensible for me.

Same, I never remember them either. However, I use a shell (fish) that has decent command history autocompletion that helps a lot for such things.

I wish the flags between ripgrep and fd lined up as I think that's what confuses me (can't remember now haha).

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