fd

fd

a fast, user-friendly alternative to find

curl -fsSL https://unflab.app/get | sh -s -- fd

Installs to ~/.local/bin. Add --prefix /usr/local/bin to
put it somewhere else, or --uninstall to remove it.

Why it’s here

No dependency problem to solve — it’s here so it installs the same way as everything else.

Details

Built from that exact tarball, with its SHA-256 pinned in the
recipe. The binary links against nothing outside /usr/lib
and /System/, checked in CI before release.

fd is a friendlier find. It searches by regex against the filename
rather than by predicate against the whole path, skips hidden files and
anything your .gitignore excludes unless told otherwise, and walks
directories in parallel.

fd report                  # anything with "report" in the name
fd -e pdf                  # by extension
fd -H -I secret            # include hidden and ignored files
fd -x wc -l                # run a command per result

man fd is the full reference; fd --help covers the flags.

Install

./install.sh                      # into ~/.local/bin
./install.sh --prefix /usr/local/bin
./install.sh --uninstall

macOS ships find, and this does not replace or shadow it — find
keeps working exactly as before.

Shell completions

Completions for zsh, bash and fish are installed to each shell’s
conventional directory. Nothing is sourced and no rc file is edited,
so whether they take effect depends on your shell already looking
there:

• bash — ~/.local/share/bash-completion/completions, found
  automatically by bash-completion 2.x.

• fish — ~/.local/share/fish/vendor_completions.d, found
  automatically.

• zsh — ~/.local/share/zsh/site-functions, which is not in the
  default fpath. Add it in ~/.zshrc, above the line that runs
  compinit:

  fpath=(~/.local/share/zsh/site-functions $fpath)
  autoload -Uz compinit && compinit
  

  The order is the part people get wrong: compinit only reads
  directories that were in fpath when it ran, so appending
  afterwards silently does nothing. compinit does notice a newly
  populated directory and rebuilds its cache on its own, so there is
  no need to delete ~/.zcompdump.

Installed under a different --prefix? Substitute <prefix>/../share
for ~/.local/share throughout.

That setup is per-shell, not per-package: once zsh is looking in
site-functions, every unflab package that ships a completion works.

About this build

Pure Rust, statically linked apart from macOS’s own system libraries —
no package manager, no runtime dependencies. Upstream disables
jemalloc on macOS, so unlike some Rust builds there is no allocator
library to link against.

Upstream also publishes prebuilt macOS binaries; this package exists so
fd installs the same way as everything else here, not because it was
hard to get.

Upstream

• Home: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
• Source: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
• Version: 10.5.0
• Licence: MIT OR Apache-2.0 (your choice; both ship)