fselect mit Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, scoop, winget installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository

Befehle und Aliase

• fselect

Projektgeschichte

The upstream README frames fselect as a complement rather than a full replacement for traditional `find` and `ls`. Its feature set grew around filesystem metadata queries: paths and sizes, dates, regular expressions, archive search, ignore-file support, media metadata, hashes, MIME types, permissions, output formats, and interactive mode.

By the 0.10 series, release notes show the project adding support for `plocate` and Everything indexes, subqueries in FROM clauses, date functions, git-related fields, and more metadata extractors.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The official README documents installation from Cargo, Debian/Ubuntu packages, RPM packages, Arch AUR, NixOS, Windows binaries, winget, Chocolatey, Scoop, Homebrew, and MacPorts. That range made fselect a cross-platform package-manager citizen rather than only a Rust crate.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users run queries such as `fselect size, path from /home/user where name = '*.cfg'` or quote a whole query string. The grammar supports SELECT-like column lists, FROM roots, WHERE expressions, GROUP BY, ORDER BY, LIMIT, OFFSET, and output formats.

The tool is useful when a shell pipeline would otherwise need several commands to filter by metadata, image dimensions, media tags, permissions, timestamps, archive contents, or indexed file-search backends.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

fselect is notable in package-manager culture as a Rust CLI that recasts a classic Unix task as a query language. Its packaging matrix also shows the modern path for developer tools: Cargo first, prebuilt GitHub assets, then Homebrew, MacPorts, winget, Scoop, Chocolatey, Nix, AUR, and distro packages.

Zeitleiste

• 0.8.x: fselect already had a public GitHub release series.
• 0.10.0: The project entered the 0.10 release line.
• 0.10.1: Release notes added FROM-clause subqueries and date functions.
• 0.10.2: Release notes added plocate and Everything support plus additional metadata fields.

Related projects

• Traditional Unix `find` and `ls` are the tools the README positions fselect alongside.
• plocate and Everything are optional index-backed search integrations documented by the project.

Quellen

• https://fselect.rocks/
• https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect
• https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect/releases