FSearch

What FSearch is

FSearch is a free file-search utility for Linux and other Unix-like systems, designed as a standalone application for advanced users. Written in C and based on GTK3, it displays results as you type. Search options include advanced syntax, wildcards, and regular expressions, with filters for files, folders, or both. Users can select folders to include or exclude from indexing, and use wildcard expressions to exclude files or folders. Results can be sorted by filename, path, size, or modification time. FSearch can index local, removable, and network locations, but does not search file contents. The project is licensed under GPL-2.0 and provides stable and development packages. Listed requirements include GTK 3.22, GLib 2.60, glibc 2.19 or musl 1.1.15, PCRE2 10.21, and ICU 4.4. The Flatpak package has limited features. Sorting many results by type can be very slow because type information is gathered on demand rather than indexed. Items moved to Trash may remain in results because that action does not update the database index.