lookfor

A cross-platform command line utility to find and highlight files that match a pattern.

Installation

From crates.io: cargo install lookfor
From GitHub: cargo install --git https://github.com/DarkCeptor44/lookfor
Manually (after cloning the repo locally): cargo install --path .

Usage

usage

$ lookfor -h
Cross-Platform file finder

Usage: lookfor [OPTIONS] <PATTERN>

Arguments:
  <PATTERN>  Pattern to search for

Options:
      --path <PATH>     Path to search in [default: .]
      --color <COLOR>   Color of the highlighted text (off for no color) [default: blue]
  -I, --case-sensitive  Case sensitive search
  -h, --help            Print help
  -V, --version         Print version

Todo

Add support for regular expressions.
Benchmark on a Linux machine with more find-like commands.

Benchmarks

The benchmarks are performed on a Windows 10 machine with 32GB of RAM and a Ryzen 7 3800X at the root of the repository (to find anything with clap in the target directory).

Command	Mean [ms]	Min [ms]	Max [ms]	Relative
`lookfor clap`	43.0 ± 3.7	41.0	65.3	1.00
`dir /s /b clap`	67.5 ± 3.2	64.0	78.0	1.57 ± 0.15
`findstr /s /m /c:clap *`	600.9 ± 11.1	589.4	620.2	13.96 ± 1.23

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