Finr is a command line tool that recursively searches files and directories with a given pattern. Built with the phrase "Work smarter not harder" in mind.
Because I wanted a tool that was fast and suited my needs. Because if I keep using someone else's tool how am I supposed to learn how to build one myself.
Assumes that you have rust and cargo installed.
sh
cargo install finr
Print help message
sh
finr --help
Search for files with .rs. Starting at the current directory.
By default finr searches for files and starts at the current directory.
If you want to search for a directory use -t d instead.
The max-depth is arbitrarily set to 100.
sh
finr .rs -e
Search for directories that contain _node_modules_ in the name.
sh
finr node_modules -t d
Searching for files that contain main in the name
sh
finr main
Search for files with .rs starting at the /home/ directory while ignoring some directories.
sh
finr .rs ~/ -e -i Files Videos Downloads .config .local
Search for files that contain main.c starting at the current directory. Ignoring Music Videos Downloads and Including .config .local .ignore.
sh
finr main.c --ignore Music Videos Downloads --include .config .local .ignore
Nope. I consider Find to be a great tool with more features than Finr. Since Finr is new at this point, it is more of an experiment than a serious well-tested tool.