ffind v1.1.2 - A sane replacement for command line file search

Info: An utility to search files recursively on a dir.

Author: Jaime Buelta

About

Basically, replaces find . -name '*FILE_PATTERN*' with ffind.py FILE_PATTERN

• Input filename maybe a regex
• Search recursively on current directory by default.
• If the FILE_PATTERN is all in lowercase, the search will be case insensitive, unless a flag is set.
• Regex can affect only the filename (default) or the full path.
• Will print colorized output in glamorous red (default), except on redirected output.
• Ignores hidden directories (directories starting with .) by default, but this can be disabled
• Can ignore source control common directories
• Follow symlinks by default, but that can be deactivated if necessary to avoid recursion problems
• Works in python2.7 and python3. It is recommended in Python 3.5 or later due performance improvements. It's much faster!
• Can delete matched files
• Can execute a command on matched files
• Experimental fuzzy search

Common uses:

• ffind txt to return all text files in current dir
• ffind ../other_dir txt to return all text files under dir ../otherdir (or `ffind.py txt -d ../otherdir`)

All options

usage: ffind.py [-h] [-p] [--nocolor] [--nosymlinks] [--hidden] [-c]
            [--delete | --exec "command" | --module "module_name args" | --command "program"]
            [--ignore-vcs] [-f] [--version]
            [dir] filepattern

Search file name in directory tree

positional arguments:
  dir                   Directory to search
  filepattern

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -p                    Match whole path, not only name of files
  --nocolor             Do not display color
  --nosymlinks          Do not follow symlinks (following symlinks can lead to
                        infinite recursion)
  --hidden              Do not ignore hidden directories
  -c                    Force case sensitive. By default, all lowercase
                        patterns are case insensitive
  --delete              Delete files found
  --exec "command"      Execute the given command with the file found as
                        argument. The string '{}' will be replaced with the
                        current file name being processed. If this option is
                        used, ffind will return a status code of 0 if all the
                        executions return 0, and 1 otherwise
  --module "module_name args"
                        Execute the given module with the file found as
                        argument. The string '{}' will be replaced with the
                        current file name being processed. If this option is
                        used, ffind will return a status code of 0 if all the
                        executions return 0, and 1 otherwise. Only SystemExit
                        is caught
  --command "program"   Execute the given python program with the file found
                        placed in local variable 'filename'. If this option is
                        used, ffind will return a status code of 1 if any
                        exceptions occur, and 0 otherwise. SystemExit is not
                        caught
  --ignore-vcs          Ignore version control system files and directories
  -f                    Experimental fuzzy search. Increases the matches, use
                        with care. Combining it with regex may give crazy
                        results
  --version             show program's version number and exit

Install

pip install ffind

Manual Install

python setup.py install

Test

It requires to install cram (it can be installed with pip install cram)

To run all the tests, run make test. This runs the tests on both Python 2 and Python 3. Running just make runs the test for Python 3.

The tests are under the tests directory, more tests are welcome.