fd ignoring .bashrc ?

[atomGit]

found out why fd isn't finding files in dot/hidden directories - in .bashrc:
alias fd='fd --show-errors --unrestricted'
doesn't work because the options aren't utilized

what am i screwing up here?

[tavianator]

How are you invoking fd? An alias in ~/.bashrc should work if you type fd at the bash prompt, but it won't work in shell scripts etc.

[atomGit]

i'm using it from a prompt

example file: /home/cas/.mozilla/firefox/installs.ini

if i $ fd 'installs\.' from /home the file is found, but if i cd to root, it ain't (this is with alias fd='fd --show-errors --unrestricted' in bashrc) ... so i thought using multiple --search-path options might work, but it doesn't

# fd --search-path '/' --search-path '/home' 'installs\.'
^ that only finds the files in /usr/...

for ref. ...

$ lsblk
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda           8:0    0 931.5G  0 disk 
└─sda1        8:1    0   931G  0 part /home
sdb           8:16   0   1.8T  0 disk 
└─sdb1        8:17   0   1.8T  0 part /storage
sdc           8:32   0   3.6T  0 disk 
└─sdc1        8:33   0   3.6T  0 part /av
sdd           8:48   0   1.8T  0 disk 
└─sdd1        8:49   0   1.8T  0 part /archive
nvme0n1     259:0    0 931.5G  0 disk 
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1    0   300M  0 part /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2    0  25.4G  0 part [SWAP]
└─nvme0n1p3 259:3    0 905.3G  0 part /

[tavianator]

Your use of # fd ... suggests that you're running the second command as root. Are you? Because root won't use your user's aliases, and they won't get picked up by sudo either

[atomGit]

...and there's the problem - yes, i was using sudo to avoid the avalanche of 'permission denied' messages - i thought the problem happened without sudo as well, but i just tested again and fd works as expected

i might add the alias to root's bashrc to avoid this issue in the future

thank you for your help and patience :)

[atomGit]

i might add the alias to root's bashrc to avoid this issue in the future

hmmm... that doesn't work - no files are found if i use sudo from my user acct., but if i switch to root (su), only then does fd work as expected

obviously this isn't an fd issue, but i expected that adding ...
alias fd='fd --show-errors --unrestricted'
... in root's bashrc and then...
# source /root/.bashrc
... and switching back to my user acct., i thought sudo would then pick up the alias, but instead NO matches are returned (for sudo fd 'installs\.ini')

[tmccombs]

aliases don't work in sudo. It jut runs the executable directly.

You could accomplish something similar by making a wrapper script with your preferred options