How To Install fd-find on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fd-find on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is fd-find
fd-find is:
While it does not seek to mirror all of find’s powerful functionality, fd provides sensible (opinionated) defaults for 80% of the use cases.
Features:
- Convenient syntax: ‘fd PATTERN’ instead of ‘find -iname ‘PATTERN’’.
- Colorized terminal output (similar to ls).
- It’s fast, often faster than find.
- Smart case.
- Ignores hidden directories and files, by default.
- Ignores patterns from your .gitignore, by default.
- Regular expressions.
- Unicode-awareness.
- Parallel command execution with a syntax similar to GNU Parallel.
Please note: the executable and the associated manpage were renamed from ‘fd’ to ‘fdfind’ because of a file name clash.
This package contains the following binaries built from the Rust crate “fd-find”:
- fd X-Cargo-Built-Using: rust-aho-corasick (= 0.7.8-1), rust-ansi-term (= 0.12.1-1), rust-atty (= 0.2.13-2), rust-bitflags (= 1.2.1-1), rust-bstr (= 0.2.11-1), rust-cfg-if (= 0.1.10-2build1), rust-clap (= 2.33.0-5), rust-crossbeam-channel (= 0.3.9-2), rust-crossbeam-utils (= 0.6.6-1), rust-ctrlc (= 3.1.3-3), rust-fnv (= 1.0.6-1), rust-globset (= 0.4.4-2), rust-humantime (= 1.3.0-1), rust-ignore (= 0.4.10-1), rust-lazy-static (= 1.4.0-1), rust-libc (= 0.2.66-1), rust-log (= 0.4.8-4), rust-lscolors (= 0.6.0-1), rust-memchr (= 2.2.1-1), rust-nix (= 0.16.1-1), rust-num-cpus (= 1.11.1-1), rust-quick-error (= 1.2.2-1), rust-regex (= 1.2.1-3), rust-regex-syntax (= 0.6.13-1), rust-same-file (= 1.0.6-1), rust-strsim (= 0.9.3-1), rust-term-size (= 0.3.1-2), rust-textwrap (= 0.11.0-1build1), rust-thread-local (= 0.3.6-1), rust-unicode-width (= 0.1.7-1), rust-vec-map (= 0.8.1-2), rust-void (= 1.0.2-1), rust-walkdir (= 2.3.1-1), rustc (= 1.41.0+dfsg1+llvm-0ubuntu1)
There are three methods to install fd-find on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fd-find Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fd-find using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fd-find
Install fd-find Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fd-find using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fd-find
Install fd-find Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install fd-find using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fd-find
How To Uninstall fd-find on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the fd-find package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fd-find
Uninstall fd-find And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fd-find and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fd-find
Remove fd-find Configurations and Data
To remove fd-find configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fd-find
Remove fd-find configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fd-find configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fd-find
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fd-find package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.