SearchMyFiles Alternatives for Linux

SearchMyFiles is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is dupeGuru, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to SearchMyFiles and 17 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to SearchMyFiles are FSearch, DocFetcher, Catfish and Clapgrep.

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  1. dupeGuru icon
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    dupeGuru is a free and open source tool to find duplicate files on your computer. It can scan either filenames or contents. The filename scan features a fuzzy matching algorithm that can find duplicate filenames even when they are not exactly the same.

    133 dupeGuru alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. FSearch icon
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    FSearch is a fast file search utility for GNU/Linux operating systems, inspired by Everything Search Engine. It's written in C and based on GTK+3.

    86 FSearch alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  3. DocFetcher icon
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    DocFetcher is an Open Source desktop search application: It allows you to search the contents of files on your computer. — You can think of it as Google for your local files. The application runs on Windows, Linux and macOS, and is made available under the Eclipse Public License.

    128 DocFetcher alternatives

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  4. Catfish icon
     43 likes

    Catfish is a handy file searching tool for Linux and Unix. The interface is intentionally lightweight and simple, using only GTK+3. You can configure it to your needs by using several command line options.

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • GTK
    • Xfce
     
  5. Clapgrep icon
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    Ever had a folder full of PDF files, where you knew, somewhere in there, is what you're looking for. But you did not know in which file. So you had to search each of them at a time…

    60 Clapgrep alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  6. AnyTXT Searcher is a powerful local data full-text search engine, just like a local disk Google search engine. It is your ideal desktop search tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
     
  7. Search Monkey icon
     35 likes

    A fast real-time search engine for displaying regular expression matches (both file name and content) across multiple directories.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  8. MightyGrep icon
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    A text searching and file finding tool.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Drill icon
     4 likes

    Search files without indexing, but clever crawling.

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    • Linux
     
  10. Tracker icon
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    Tracker is a search engine and that allows the user to find their data as fast as possible. Users can search for their files and search for content in their files too.

    39 Tracker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  11.  Like

    DuFF is Unix command-line utility for quickly finding duplicates in a given set of files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
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