FSearch is a free and open source file search application for Linux. Using FSearch you can search folders and files very fast as possible. It comes with regular expressions, ignore case, exclude certain files and folders, wildcard support, powerful build-in filter support, sort file and folder by name, path, size, modification time and extension, dark mode support, and more.
How to Install FSearch on Ubuntu Linux
You can install the latest version of FSearch app using official Ubuntu PPA. In terminal app (ctrL+alt+t) run below commands one by one to install it. Press Enter and confirm during PPA installation.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:christian-boxdoerfer/fsearch-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install fsearch
After the installation you can open FSearch via the applications menu or via below command.
fsearch
Install FSearch via Snap:
In terminal run this FSearch snap install command.
sudo snap install fsearch
After that run below command to access external drives.
sudo snap connect fsearch:removable-media
You can also uninstall FSearch snap using
sudo snap remove fsearch
Install FSearch via Flatpak:
Install flatpak and flathub on your system and restart after the installation. Now in the terminal run below FSearch flatpak install command.
flatpak install flathub io.github.cboxdoerfer.FSearch
You can open it using
flatpak run io.github.cboxdoerfer.FSearch
And uninstall FSearch using
sudo flatpak uninstall io.github.cboxdoerfer.FSearch
That’s all.
