#cli #string-search #search #rust

app locate

A tool to search all the occurrences of a string in all the files in directory

2 releases

0.1.1 Mar 21, 2020
0.1.0 Mar 20, 2020

#46 in #string-search

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A recursive Search Tool written in Rust

How many times have you gone through files in search of a string, or finding origin of a function.

Locate is a tool written in Rust which goes through each file and gives exact location of the string in the file.


Key Features

  • Works on Windows, MacOS and Linux

  • Blazing Fast

    speed

  • Finds String Deep Inside Directory Structure


Installation

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/pr4k/locate

# Build the project
cargo build --release

It will create a binary in target/release, copy it to /usr/bin and you are good to go.

Or simply do

cargo install locate


Give it a Test Run

Don't want to clone the project, No worries!!

Go to the releases and downlaod the latest release, copy it to /usr/bin that's all.


Usage

  ~ locate -h                       
Usage:
  locate [OPTIONS]

Recursive string locater in files

Optional arguments:
  -h,--help             Show this help message and exit
  -p,--path PATH        Path to folder
  -q,--query QUERY      Query string to find

Try locate -p /path/to/folder -q /string-to-be-searched


Demo

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TO-DO

  • Add regex support for the search string
  • Control Folder depth for search
  • Provide option to replace the searched word by another

License

GitHub license


Dependencies

~0.3–8MB
~48K SLoC