Finder is a powerful and flexible console application for searching files and directories in a specified path. It supports regular expressions, wildcard patterns, fuzzy search, and can also search within the content of text files (note: that it has only been tested with Ubuntu).
- Pattern Matching: Supports regular expressions and wildcards for matching file names.
- Fuzzy Search: Implements fuzzy search using the Levenshtein distance algorithm.
- Content Search: Ability to search within the content of text files.
- Customizable Exclusions: Excludes specific paths in the search with the option to include exceptions.
finder [options] [directory] [pattern][directory]: The starting directory for the search (defaults to the current directory if not specified).[pattern]: The pattern to search for (supports regular expressions and wildcards).
-c,--content: Search within the content of text files as well as their names.-f,--fuzzy: Enable fuzzy search for approximately similar matches.-h,--help: Display help information about the command usage and options.
finder . "*.txt" # Finds all .txt files in the current directory and subdirectories.
finder /usr "config" -c # Searches for files named 'config' and files containing 'config' in /usr.
finder -f "readme" # Performs a fuzzy search for files/directories similar to 'readme'.
finder / "log*.txt" -c -f # Fuzzy searches for .log files in the root directory and checks their content.
Compile and deploy as a single-file standalone console app with .NET 8.
Contributions to the Finder project are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md for how to contribute.
This project is licensed under the MIT License.