Changelog History
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v7.3.0
February 13, 2019🔋 Features
🆕 New
--exec-batch <cmd>
/-X <cmd>
option for batch execution of commands, see #360 (@kimsnj).
This allows you to do things like:fd … -X vim # open all search results in vim (or any other editor)fd … -X ls -l # view detailed stats about the search results with 'ls'fd -e svg -X inkscape # open all SVG files in Inkscape
👌 Support for 24-bit color codes (when specified via
LS_COLORS
) as well as
💅 different font styles (bold, italic, underline).
🔄 Changes
- 🐎 A few performance improvements, in particular when printing lots of colorized
👀 results to the console, see #370 - 👀 The
LS_COLORS
handling has been "outsourced" to a separate crate (https://github.com/sharkdp/lscolors) that is now being used by other tools as well: fselect, lsd. For details, see #363.
Other
- 👀
fd
will be available in Ubuntu Disco DIngo (19.04), see #373 (@sylvestre) - 🚀 This release should come with a static ARM binary (
arm-unknown-linux-musleabihf
), see #320 (@duncanfinney) - 📚 Various documentation improvements, see #389
Thanks
♻️ Special thanks to @alexmaco for his awesome work on refactoring and code improvements! (see #401, #398, and #383)
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v7.2.0
October 27, 2018🔋 Features
- ➕ Added support for filtering by file modification time by adding two new options
--changed-before <date|duration>
and--changed-within <..>
. For more details, see the--help
text, the man page, the relevant issue #165 and the PR #339 (@kimsnj) - ➕ Added
--show-errors
option to enable the display of filesystem error messages such as "permission denied", see #311 (@psinghal20 and @majecty) - ➕ Added
--maxdepth
as a (hidden) alias for--max-depth
, see #323 (@mqudsi) - ➕ Added
--search-path
option which can be supplied to replace the positionalpath
argument at any position.
🔄 Changes
- 👀 Loosen strict handling of missing
--ignore-file
, see #280 (@psinghal20) - 👀 Re-enabled
.ignore
files, see #156.
🛠 Bugfixes
fd
could previously get stuck when run from the root directory in the
👀 presence of zombie processes. This curious bug has been fixed in Rust 1.29 and higher. For more details, see #288, rust-lang/rust#50619 and the fix
Other
- 👀
fd
has officially landed in Debian! See #345 for details. Thanks goes to @sylvestre, @paride and possibly others I don't know about. - ➕ Added Chinese translation of README (@chinanf-boy)
Thanks
A special thanks goes to @joshleeb for his amazing improvements throughout
♻️ the code base (new tests, refactoring work and various other things)! - ➕ Added support for filtering by file modification time by adding two new options
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v7.1.0
August 19, 2018🔋 Features
- ➕ Added
--size
filter option, see #276 (@stevepentland, @JonathanxD and @alexmaco) - ➕ Added
--type empty
(or-t e
) to search for empty files and/or directories, see #273
🔄 Changes
- With the new version,
.gitignore
files will only be respected in Git repositories, not outside. - 🐎 A few performance improvements for
--type
searches, see 641976c and 50a2bab
Other
- ➕ Added
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v7.0.0
March 26, 2018🔋 Features
- ➕ Added
--type executable
(or-t x
) to search for executable files only, see #246 (@PramodBisht) - ➕ Added support for
.fdignore
files, see #156 and #241. - ➕ Added
--ignore-file
option to add custom ignore files, see #156. - 👀 Suggest
--fixed-strings
on invalid regular expressions, see #234 (@PramodBisht) - 👀 Detect when user supplied path instead of pattern, see #235.
🔄 Changes
- 📜
.ignore
and.rgignore
files are not parsed anymore. Use.fdignore
files
or add custom files via--ignore-file
instead. - ⚡️ Updated to
regex-syntax
0.5 (@cuviper)
🛠 Bugfixes
- 👀 Properly normalize absolute paths, see #268
- 👀 Invalid utf8 filenames displayed when
-e
is used, see #250 - 👀 If
--type
is used, fifos/sockets/etc. are always shown, see #260
Other
- Packaging:
- The Arch Linux package is now simply called
fd
. - There is now a
fd
ebuild for Gentoo Linux. - There is a
scoop
package forfd
(Windows). - There is a
Chocolatey
package forfd
(Windows). - There is a Fedora
copr
package forfd
.
- The Arch Linux package is now simply called
- ➕ Added
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v6.3.0
February 10, 2018🔋 Features
👀 Files with multiple extensions can now be found via
--extension
/-e
, see #214 (@althonos)\> fd -e tar.gz
➕ Added new
-F
/--fixed-strings
/--literal
option that treats the pattern as a literal string instead of a regular expression, see #157\> fd -F 'file(1).txt'
👍 Allow
-exec
to work as--exec
, see #226 (@stevepentland)🛠 Bugfixes
🛠 Fixed
Ctrl-C
handling when using--exec
, see #224 (@Doxterpepper)🛠 Fixed wrong file owner for files in deb package, see #213
Other
- Replaced old gif by a fancy new SVG screencast (@marionebl)
- ⚡️ Updated benchmark results (fd has become faster in the meantime!). There is a new repository that hosts several benchmarking scripts for fd: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd-benchmarks
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v6.2.0
January 03, 2018🔋 Features
👌 Support for filtering by multiple file extensions and multiple file types, see #199 and #177
(@tkadur).For example, it's possible to search for C++ source or header files:
\> fd -e cpp -e c -e cxx -e h pattern
🔄 Changes
- The size of the output buffer (for sorting search results) is now limited to 1000 entries. This
👌 improves the search speed significantly if there are a lot of results, see #191 (@sharkdp).
🛠 Bugfixes
- 🛠 Fix a bug where long-running searches could not be killed via Ctrl-C, see #210 (@Doxterpepper)
- 👀 fd's exit codes are now in accordance with Unix standards, see #201 (@Doxterpepper)
Other
- The size of the output buffer (for sorting search results) is now limited to 1000 entries. This
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v6.1.0
December 10, 2017🔋 Features
- 👌 Support for multiple search paths, see #166 (@Doxterpepper)
- ➕ Added
--no-ignore-vcs
option to disable.gitignore
and other VCS ignore files,
👀 without disabling.ignore
files - see #156 (@ptzz).
🛠 Bugfixes
- 🚦 Handle terminal signals, see #128 (@Doxterpepper)
- 🛠 Fixed hang on
--exec
when user input was required, see #178 and #193 (@reima)
Other
- 👷 Debian packages are now created via Travis CI and should be available for this and all
🚀 future releases (@tmccombs). - 🐧 fd is now available on Void Linux (@maxice8)
- The minimum required Rust version is now 1.20
Thanks
🚀 @Doxterpepper deserves a special mention for his great work that is included in this release and
👷 for the support in ticket discussions and concerning Travis CI fixes. Thank you very much!📦 Thanks also go out to @tmccombs for the work on Debian packages and for reviewing a lot of pull requests!
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v6.0.0
November 16, 2017🔄 Changes
- The
--exec
/-x
option does not spawn an intermediate shell anymore. This improves the
🐎 performance of parallel command execution and fixes a whole class of (present and potentially
future) problems with shell escaping. The drawback is that shell commands cannot directly be
👀 called with--exec
. See #155 for the full discussion. These changes have been implemented by
@reima (Thanks!).
🛠 Bugfixes
- 🏁
--exec
does not escape cmd.exe metacharacters on Windows (see #155, as above).
Other
- fd is now available in the FreeBSD ports (@andoriyu)
- 🏗 The minimal
rustc
version is now checked when building withcargo
, see #164 (@matematikaadit) - The output directory for the shell completion files is created if it does not exist (@andoriyu)
- The
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v5.0.0
October 26, 2017🔋 Features
- ➕ Added new
--exec
,-x
option for parallel command execution (@mmstick, see #84 and #116). See the corresponding README section for an introduction. - 🏁 Auto-disable color output on unsupported Windows shells like
cmd.exe
(@iology, see #129) - ➕ Added the
--exclude
,-X
option to suppress certain files/directories in the search results
👀 (see #89). - ➕ Added ripgrep aliases
-u
and-uu
for--no-ignore
and--no-ignore --hidden
, respectively
👀 (@unsignedint, see #92) - ➕ Added
-i
,--ignore-case
(@iology, see #95) - 👀 Made smart case really smart (@reima, see #103)
- ➕ Added RedoxOS support (@goyox86, see #131)
🔄 Changes
- 👀 The dot
.
can now match newlines in file names (@iology, see #111) - 👀 The short
--type
argument for symlinks has been changed froms
tol
(@jcpetkovich, see #83)
🛠 Bugfixes
- 👀 Various improvements in root-path and symlink handling (@iology, see #82, #107, and #113)
- 🛠 Fixed absolute path handling on Windows (@reima, #93)
- 🛠 Fixed: current directory not included when using relative path (see #81)
- 🛠 Fixed
--type
behavior for unknown file types (@iology, see #150) - 👀 Some fixes around
--exec
(@iology, see #142)
Other
- 🛠 Major updates and bugfixes to our continuous integration and deployment tooling on Travis
👀 (@matematikaadit, see #149, #145, #133) - 💅 Code style improvements & automatic style checking via
rustfmt
on Travis (@Detegr, see #99) - ➕ Added a man page (@pickfire, see #77)
- fd has been relicensed under the dual license MIT/Apache-2.0 (@Detegr, see #105)
- ♻️ Major refactorings and code improvements (Big thanks to @gsquire, @reima, @iology)
- First version of
CONTRIBUTING
guidelines - 📦 There is now a Nix package (@mehandes)
- fd is now in the official Arch Linux repos (@cassava)
- 👌 Improved tooling around shell completion files (@ImbaKnugel, see #124)
- ⚡️ Updated tutorial in the
README
- The minimum required version of Rust has been bumped to 1.19.
Thanks
A lot of things have happened since the last release and I'd like to thank all contributors for their great support. I'd also like to thank those that have contributed by reporting bugs and by posting feature requests.
I'd also like to take this chance to say a special Thank You to a few people that have stood out in one way or another: To @iology, for contributing a multitude of bugfixes, improvements and new features. To @reima and @Detegr for their continuing great support. To @mmstick, for implementing the most advanced new feature of fd. And to @matematikaadit for the CI/tooling upgrades.
- ➕ Added new
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v4.0.0
October 07, 2017🔋 Features
- ➕ Added filtering by file extension, for example
fd -e txt
, see #56 (@reima) - ➕ Add option to force colored output:
--color always
, see #49 (@Detegr) - 👀 Generate Shell completions for Bash, ZSH, Fish and Powershell, see #64 (@ImbaKnugel)
- 👍 Better & extended
--help
text (@abaez and @Detegr) - 🏁 Proper Windows support, see #70
🔄 Changes
- 👀 The integration tests have been re-written in Rust ✨, making them platform-independent and easily callable via
cargo test
- see #65 (many thanks to @reima!) - 🆕 New tutorial in the README (@deg4uss3r)
- ⬇️ Reduced number of
stat
syscalls for each result from 3 to 1, see #36. - Enabled Appveyor CI
- ➕ Added filtering by file extension, for example