UltraSearch equivalent for Mac?

[gradi]

For many years I have been using the free, excellent, flexible, and extremely fast file search utility called UltraSearch on Windows:

https://www.jam-software.com/ultrasearch_free

You can search by partial filename, regular expressions, and other criteria. You can indicate what type of file. You can specify the whole computer or a particular drive and so on. Simple interface.

Yes, I know about Spotlight and Finder search. They are much like what Windows has. All are mediocre for the kind of file search I find myself doing everyday.

Anyone know of something similar for Mac?

 

[weird_method]

I like HoudaSpot. It's a little expensive but I feel it's worth it.

HoudahSpot – Powerful File Search Tool for Mac

Find files by name, text, date, size, extension, and more. Locate documents, email messages, PDFs, photos, etc. Preview files and text matches. Stop searching; start finding.

www.houdah.com

 

[Melonking]

Im not sure how comparable it is, but Iv used EasyFind for a few years and its excellent and free; I use it on a folder that contains 100k+ files, Finder totally cant handle it, but EasyFind works with no issues for partial file name search.

DEVONtechnologies | Needful Things

A little collection of free utilities for the Mac to make your life easier.

www.devontechnologies.com

 

[gradi]

Thank you for the suggestion.

 

[organicCPU]

Besides the great EasyFind, mentioned by @Melonking, I can recommend:

• Find Any File (FAF) - Free to try, $6 to buy
• find - Free, included in macOS (open Terminal and type man find to get started)

 

[HDFan]

You could also use the Unix find command in terminal. It supports regular expressions. Some examples from the man page:

The following examples are shown as given to the shell:



find / \! -name "*.c" -print

Print out a list of all the files whose names do not end in .c.



find / -newer ttt -user wnj -print

Print out a list of all the files owned by user “wnj” that are

newer than the file ttt.



find / \! \( -newer ttt -user wnj \) -print

Print out a list of all the files which are not both newer than ttt

and owned by “wnj”.



find / \( -newer ttt -or -user wnj \) -print

Print out a list of all the files that are either owned by “wnj” or

that are newer than ttt.



find / -newerct '1 minute ago' -print

Print out a list of all the files whose inode change time is more

recent than the current time minus one minute.



find / -type f -exec echo {} \;

Use the echo(1) command to print out a list of all the files.



find -L /usr/ports/packages -type l -exec rm -- {} +

Delete all broken symbolic links in /usr/ports/packages.



find /usr/src -name CVS -prune -o -depth +6 -print

Find files and directories that are at least seven levels deep in

the working directory /usr/src.



find /usr/src -name CVS -prune -o -mindepth 7 -print

Is not equivalent to the previous example, since -prune is not

evaluated below level seven.