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Sombrero File Search

Sombrero File Search is a native Linux file search tool built for people who miss Agent Ransack / FileLocator from Windows. It searches file names and file contents live, with boolean expressions, across many disks — no indexing daemon, no background service, no waiting for a...

Main search window with live results and boolean query

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  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Privacy focused

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  1.  Dark Mode
  2.  Full-Text Search
  3.  Ad-free
  4.  No registration required
  5.  No Tracking
  6.  Works Offline
  7.  Command line interface
  8.  Support for regular expressions
  9.  Duplicate File Finder
  10.  Content Searching
  11.  File Search

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What is Sombrero File Search?

Sombrero File Search is a native Linux file search tool built for people who miss Agent Ransack / FileLocator from Windows. It searches file names and file contents live, with boolean expressions, across many disks — no indexing daemon, no background service, no waiting for a database to build. Search starts instantly and results stream in as they're found.

It includes document content search (PDF, ODF, and more via ripgrep + fd under the hood), a duplicate finder that is strictly non-destructive (it only finds and lists — it will never delete files), and both a GUI (PySide6) and a CLI. The installer runs cleanly on traditional distros and on immutable/atomic systems (Fedora Atomic, Bazzite, SteamOS-style setups) without root and without layering.

Built by a physician in Brazil to search through more than a decade of medical records spread across 13 disks — open source, GPL licensed.