KatSearch: Fast, simple, powerful filesystem search for macOS (Free software)
KatSearch is a work in progress and currently only available as an alpha release. Some things will be broken. Caveat emptor!
Mac power-user app to quickly find files on entire APFS and HFS+ volumes by scanning the file system catalog.
KatSearch is written by: Sveinbjörn Þórðarson
Features
Unlike Spotlight, KatSearch performs no indexing and only looks at filenames, not content. It uses a fast low-level kernel call to search the entire file system via the APFS or HFS+ file system catalog.
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Fast, native, modern macOS app with a responsive, powerful, no-nonsense interface
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Displays live search results
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Scans the actual file system, not just the userland files Apple wants you to see
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Can run with admin privileges to find all files irrespective of permissions
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Ubiquitous native drag and drop behaviour, with hooks into Finder actions/services via contextual menu
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Supports all the standard Finder keyboard shortcuts for file actions
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Search windows can be invoked using a global hotkey
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Includes searchfs, a command line tool counterpart
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Free, open source software written in Objective-C/Cocoa
Platforms
macOS null
License
BSD-3-Clause license
Tags
file search, search, folder search, system,tool,tools,doc search
