noahdunnagan/fsearch: Whole-disk file search for macOS: fuzzy names, typo tolerance, indexed content grep. ~1 ms over 8M files. ·
Whole-disk file search for macOS: fuzzy names, typo tolerance, indexed content grep. ~1 ms over 8M files. Whole-disk file search for macOS. Finds any file by name in about a millisecond, forgives typos, and searches inside files with an index. Use it as a CLI (with a small daemon) or as a Rust crate. M4 Max, 7.7M files and folders on disk. Chromium (509k files), same Mac, same queries. Video: demo/fsearch-vs-fff.mp4, method: demo/vs_fff.py. On the smaller Linux kernel (96k files), name search is a tie and fsearch wins the rest. fff searches the contents of about 9% more files, because fsearch skips some file types and build/ and vendor/ folders. Words are fuzzy, and 5+ letter words forgive one typo (mian.rs finds main.rs). Also 'exact, ^prefix, suffix$ and !exclude. Filters: ext: type: kind: in: size: mtime: re: path: grep: regex: sym: limit:. Content search is smart-case. Started from a terminal with Full Disk Access, it indexes everything. As a login item (fsearch install --login), g