Recursively search for files and directories with a pattern, ignoring irrelevant directories.
I developed finr to quickly find files and directories in the filesystem, ignoring certain directories that usually do not contain what I'm looking for. Finr is heavily inspired by ripgrep, specifically the ignore directories part. I wanted a tool that was both fast and easy to use.
Assumes that you have rust and cargo installed.
cargo install finrgit clone https://github.com/Gers2017/finr && \
cd finr && \
cargo build --releasePrint help message
finr --helpFinr looks for files and starts at the current directory by default.
To search for a directory, use -t d (--type directory).
The max-depth is arbitrarily set to 100.
Search for .rs files using regex (Uses the regex crate)
finr '.+\.rs$' --regexfinr searching for .md files with a max depth of 200
finr '.+\.md$' --regex --max-depth 200Search for directories that start with build inside the Documents directory. (Uses starts_with)
finr build ~/Documents --start -t dSearch for files with .rs. Starting at the current directory. (Uses ends_with)
finr .rs -eSearching for files that contain main in the name, starting at Documents.
(Uses contains)
finr main ~/Documents/Search for directories that contain _node_modules_ in the name.
finr node_modules -t dSearch for files with .rs at the end, starting at the /home/ directory while excluding (-E) some directories.
finr .rs ~/ -e -E Files Videos Downloads .config .localSearch for files that contain main.c starting at the current directory. Ignoring Music Videos Downloads and Including .config .local .ignore.
finr main.c --exclude Music Videos Downloads --include .config .local .ignoreI consider both find and fd to be a great tools with more features than finr.
Since finr is relatively new, it doesn't have as many features as either find or fd-find (so please bear this in mind).