Locate32 VS fzf

Date, e. g. Paris_080517 for May 17th 2008 in Travels. Any general search tool like Locate32 can then instantly find all the Paris. Source: about 1 year ago

On my computer I've used Locate32 for years now. Not the youngest but works perfectly. Once the files are indexed it can find them even on disconnected drives and has lots of filtering options (which I generally don't even need). Source: over 1 year ago

People here think highly of Everything, and I presume it can do that, but I use Locate32 which satisfies all my needs. Source: almost 2 years ago

I that doesn't work, use something like Everything or Locate to index your files and search for the tar.gz extension. Source: almost 2 years ago

Locate32 : The windows version of updatedb and locate commands from linux. I've never needed the contents indexed, just the name. Source: about 2 years ago

I have removed limit for bash history lines and file size and am using https://github.com/junegunn/fzf for reverse-search. - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago

Those are the most used aliases in my gitconfig. "git fza" shows a list of modified/new files in an fzf window, and you can select each file with tab plus arrow keys. When you hit enter, those files are fed into "git add". Needs fzf: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

> my history is so noisy I had to find another way The fzf search syntax can help, if you become familiar with it. It is also supported in atuin [2]. [1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#search-syntax. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

You call it with `n` and get an interactive fuzzy search for your directories. If you do `n https://github.com/sharkdp/fd. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

I do find the history pager stuff interesting, but ultimately not of tremendous use for me. I rebound all my history search stuff to use fzf[1] (via a fish plugin for such[2]), and so haven't been aware of the issues [1] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago