A simple python utility that indexes directory and file names in a sqlite database to allow for fast searching.
Definitely check out locate before considering this tool.
pip install search-fscreate-search-fs --help
search-fs --helpcreate-search-fs dir1/ dir2/Search anywhere for JPG files
search-fs --name '*.jpg'Search just one directory tree for JPG files
search-fs --name '*.jpg' dir1/Search just one directory and not any of the sub directories for JPG files
search-fs --name '*.jpg' dir1/ --strict-dirSearch for directories
search-fs --name 'Directory*' --type dSearch for files by size
search-fs --size '500M' #Files larger than 500MB
search-fs --size='-10M' #Files smaller than 10MB, Note: make sure you use use '--size=' for less thanSearch by regular expression
search-fs --regex '\w+\d\d?\.jpg'Format the output
search-fs --name '*.jpg' --format=size,nameYou can setup a cronjob to run create-search-fs so that the index is up to date.
Create dirs.txt which contains the directories to index
#Lines starting with # are ignored
/path/dir1
/other/dir2
Add line with crontab -e to update the index every hour
0 * * * * /usr/local/bin/create-search-fs --dirs /path/to/dirs.txt