find-patterns 1.0.4

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findme

Lightweight python based shell utility for finding files on disk using regex.

Why?

The bash find command has a --regex option, which works great for one-off searches.
However, I didn't have a good way to remember the dozen or so patterns I was searching for daily, and then quickly compose them into a find --regex call.

This tool is meant to streamline the process of remembering regex patterns, so you can search for them faster.

Installation

Use pip to install the find-patterns python package: pip install find-patterns

This will install a shell script findme as well as the python package find_patterns.

Usage

Add a pattern to locate all python files on disk.
findme --add py --pattern "\.py$"

Add a pattern to locate all c++ template files
findme --add templates --pattern "\.(inl|\[ht]cc|\[ht]pp)$"

Add a pattern to locate all files named "activate". --files-only is needed, since the file has no extension to match against.
findme --add activate --pattern "activate$" --files-only

Search for all c++ template files inside the given directory.
findme templates ./project_dir/include

Search for maya files and perform other operations with the filepaths.
findme maya | wc -l | ...

Remove the alias we previously created for python files.
findme --remove py

List all aliases that are assigned.
findme --list