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I'm writing a breadth-first version of find. It's available on the AUR(4), and the code is on GitHub.
Currently it doesn't support any of find's options, but I plan to add support for the common ones. It does support a "-nohidden" flag that filters out dotfiles, something surprisingly difficult to do with find. It also supports colorization, respecting LS_COLORS.
The reason I'm writing it is mainly to integrate it with fzf, a terminal fuzzy finder. fzf uses find by default, which means it will often fully explore a very deep directory tree before reaching the nearby file I'm looking for. bfs ensures that shallower files always show up before deeper ones, which usually means it finds the file I want sooner. The colorization is also nice:
$ bfs -color -nohidden | fzf --ansiLast edited by tavianator (2015-06-20 04:42:39)
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