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Drill

Search files without indexing, but clever crawling.

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  •  282 Stars
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  •  18 Open Issues
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Dom P
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best file search on linux imo

emascandam
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It is really fast compared to Catfish. Worth giving a try if you only look for files by file name

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What is Drill?

TL;DR: What is this

Search files without indexing, but clever crawling:

At least 1 thread per mount point Use as much RAM as possible for caching stuff Try to avoid "black hole folders" using a regex based blocklist in which the crawler will never come out and never scan useful files (node_modules,Windows,etc) Intended for desktop users, no obscure Linux files and system files scans Use priority lists to first scan important folders. Betting on the future: slowly being optimized for SSDs/M.2 or fast RAID arrays

What is this

I was stressed on Linux because I couldn't find the files I needed, file searchers based on system indexing (updatedb) are prone to breaking and hard to configure for the average user, so did an all nighter and started this.

Drill is a modern file searcher for Linux that tries to fix the old problem of slow searching and indexing. Nowadays even some SSDs are used for storage and every PC has nearly a minimum of 8GB of RAM and quad-core; knowing this it's time to design a future-proof file searcher that doesn't care about weak systems and uses the full multithreaded power in a clever way to find your files in the fastest possible way.