noahdunnagan/fsearch
Whole-disk file search for macOS: fuzzy names, typo tolerance, indexed content grep. ~1 ms over 8M files.
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Whole-disk file search for macOS: names in about 0.1 ms, typo-tolerant, plus indexed search inside files. A CLI with a small daemon, a Rust crate, or an MCP server for coding agents. Or skip the Rust toolchain with a release build for Apple Silicon: M4 Mac mini, a home holding the Linux or the Chromium source tree, vs the previous version (b88f4e9). Medians; Linux / Chromium. The index is a third smaller while holding a third more text: one 3-bit filter per file instead of two, compressed posting lists and paths, and bit-packed name arrays read in place. Grep's first page reads a few more files for it, and the deeper typo search costs a little on names. Words are fuzzy and forgive a typo at any letter, two in words of 8+ (mian.rs finds main.rs); several words can spell one name. Accented names match however they were stored. Also…
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Whole-disk file search for macOS: fuzzy names, typo tolerance, indexed content grep. ~1 ms over 8M files.
Repository facts
- Owner
- noahdunnagan
- Primary language
- Rust
- Stars
- 2,210
- Forks
- 140
- Open issues + pull requests
- 7
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-10-08T17:50:33.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-12T18:33:47.000Z
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