jhspetersson/fselect

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4458 stars · 86 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

fselect is a Rust command-line utility that lets users find files using SQL-like queries instead of cryptic find flags. It supports aggregate functions, subqueries, media metadata search, archive inspection, and multiple output formats like CSV and JSON.

Use cases

• find files with sql-like queries
• search files by size larger than 1gb
• find images by exif metadata like camera model or gps
• search mp3 files by artist or bitrate
• query files inside zip archives
• get statistics like count and average size of files in a directory
• respect gitignore when searching files
• output file search results as json or csv

When to choose

• you find find's flag syntax hard to remember and prefer SQL-like queries
• you need to filter files by rich metadata such as EXIF, audio tags, hashes, or MIME type
• you want aggregate statistics or subqueries comparing files across directories
• you need structured output (CSV, JSON, HTML) for downstream tools

When to avoid

• you need a POSIX-standard find replacement for scripts that must be portable
• you only need simple filename globbing where ls or find suffice
• you need real SQL against a database rather than a filesystem query tool

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

search-engine cli developer-tools files developer-tools windows cli cross-platform sql-like-queries file-search find-alternative rust exif audio-metadata archive-search gitignore command-line linux macos

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