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This is the only tool I miss from Windows on macOS and linux both. It allows you to search for every single file on your system, allows regex searches. It also

This is the only tool I miss from Windows on macOS and linux both. It allows you to search for every single file on your system, allows regex searches. It also allows you to sort the matching files by any arbitrary criteria, e.g, size. It is also incredibly fast, so searching a 1TB HDD is instantaneous. People are mentioning Spotlight here, and I think it is better than Windows search, but is simply not as good as Everything. I haven't tried Alfred so won't comment on it. On Linux also your best bet is to use find( or some gui which does something similar), but no tool offers the same kind of instantaneous full disk search like Everything.

simcop2387 8y ago
While it's a client tool, most Linux distros (and osx I think too) ship with the locate command that does this too.
- teknopaul 8y ago
  There is a version of locate/updatedb for windows as well. I think it is called locate32. I cant use a computer for dev without locate
  - atjd 8y ago
    Everything use a feature provided by NTFS file system, so the `updatedb` part is incredibly fast, i haven't found anything that can even come close on macos/linux.
  - homarp 8y ago
    and you can also try fd https://github.com/sharkdp/fd https://github.com/sharkdp/fd (it works without index)
- ubercow13 8y ago
  Locate is kind of slow, even just executing a search is slower than Everything