fd is designed to find entries in your filesystem. The most basic search you can perform is to run fd with a single argument: the search pattern. For example, assume that you want to find an old script of yours (the name included netflix):

> fd netfl
Software/python/imdb-ratings/netflix-details.pysh

regular expressions

> cd /etc
> fd '^x.*rc$'
X11/xinit/xinitrc
X11/xinit/xserverrc

specifying the root directory

> fd passwd /etc
/etc/default/passwd
/etc/pam.d/passwd
/etc/passwd

list all files, recursively

> cd fd/tests
> fd
testenv
testenv/mod.rs
tests.rs

recursively find all zip archives and unpack them

fd -e zip -x unzip

find all test_*.py files and open them in your favorite editor

fd -g 'test_*.py' -X vim

Note that we use capital -X here to open a single vim instance by passing all of them as arguments to a single command.

searching for a particular file extension

> cd fd
> fd -e md
CONTRIBUTING.md
README.md