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fselect vs GNU findutils: catalog facts
fselect	GNU findutils
Best for: People who find SQL easier to write than find expressions	Best for: Searching for files and acting on them from a Unix shell
Free Free and open source, dual licensed under MIT and Apache 2.0.	Free Free software from the GNU Project.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Linux, Command line
Readable SQL-like queries instead of find flags Subqueries and aggregate functions All 3 strengths for fselect Readable SQL-like queries instead of find flags Subqueries and aggregate functions Can compare results across several directories	Powerful file matching by name, type, size, time and more locate gives very fast lookups from a file name database All 3 strengths for GNU findutils Powerful file matching by name, type, size, time and more locate gives very fast lookups from a file name database xargs runs commands over large lists of files
Not a complete replacement for find and ls Query grammar is SQL-like but not real SQL	locate results are only as current as the last updatedb run Option syntax is dense and takes time to learn
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: MIT OR Apache-2.0	License: GPL-3.0-or-later
No account needed	No account needed
Offline features available	Offline features available
Official website Full listing and sources Sources for fselect github.com/jhspetersson/fselect Catalog checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Sources for GNU findutils gnu.org/software/findutils Catalog checked October 1, 2026

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