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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 .
  • From releases.

Usage

usage

$ lookfor -h
Cross-Platform file finder

Usage: lookfor [OPTIONS] <PATTERN>

Arguments:
  <PATTERN>  Pattern to search for

Options:
      --in <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.

Benchmarks

The benchmarks were performed on different machines at the root of the repository after running both cargo build and cargo build -r, to find anything with clap in the target directory.

  • Machine A: AMD64, 32GB RAM, Ryzen 7 3800X
  • Machine B: ARM64, 1GB RAM, Orange Pi Zero2

Windows

Ran on Machine A (Windows 10):

Command Mean [ms] Min [ms] Max [ms] Relative
lookfor clap 44.8 ± 1.5 43.4 53.1 1.00
dir /s /b *clap* 75.4 ± 1.7 73.2 79.7 1.68 ± 0.07
findstr /s /m /c:clap * 694.5 ± 4.8 686.8 702.2 15.51 ± 0.52

Linux

Ran on Machine A (WSL2 Debian 12):

Command Mean [ms] Min [ms] Max [ms] Relative
lookfor clap 167.4 ± 7.7 160.6 187.3 1.00
find . -iname "*clap*" 271.9 ± 13.3 250.0 283.1 1.62 ± 0.11

Ran on Machine B (Debian 12):

Command Mean [ms] Min [ms] Max [ms] Relative
lookfor clap 14.0 ± 0.2 13.5 14.6 1.06 ± 0.04
find . -iname "*clap*" 13.2 ± 0.4 12.6 15.0 1.00

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.0.

Dependencies

~1.3–8.5MB
~72K SLoC