I’m a big fan of [fd](https://github.com/sharkdp/fd/) and use it as a part of my dev workflow as it’s [way easier than find](https://remysharp.com/2018/08/23/cli-improved#fd—find).
I’ve used it to convert files on the fly for ingest, specifically converting xlsx to csv en mass.
This is the command I was running:
$ fd . -e xlsx -x sh -c "in2csv '{}' > '{.}'.csv"This finds all the files that end with xlsx (using -e) and executes (-x) a shell command that passes the full filename {} to [in2csv](https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) (part of the csvkit tools) and outputs to the basename {.} with .csv appended.
Except I found that this wouldn’t work in certain situations. At first I thought it was because I had spaces in my filenames, but then remembered: \[fd] ignores patterns from your .gitignore, by default.
Since xlsx files aren’t required in my git repo they’re ignored. So this TIL is more to make sure I don’t forget, to ignore the ignore file -I is required.
$ fd . -I -e xlsx -x sh -c "in2csv '{}' > '{.}'.csv"Simples.
Learned at 21-May 2021 @ 11:39 about cli. [Edit this post](https://github.com/remy/remysharp.com/blob/main/public/til/cli/when-fd-shows-no-files.md)