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> there's not much reason to switch There are a few reasons you might still want to switch. In fd'a case: - It respects .gitignore files (as well as similar .
by thayne 2y ago
> there's not much reason to switch
There are a few reasons you might still want to switch. In fd'a case:
- It respects .gitignore files (as well as similar .fdignore files that aren't git specific), which can help you find what you care about without a lot of noise, or having to pass a lot of exclude rules to find
- it can search in parallel, which can significantly reduce latency when searching large directories.
However, there are also reasons you might want to keep using find:
- fd can't do everything find can. fd is intended to replace the most common use cases with a simpler interface, but there are many less common cases that require finds greater flexibility. In fact, I still use find sometimes because of this.
- find is more likely to already be installed