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

$ 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 [default: blue] [possible values: red, black, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, white, bright-black, bright-red, bright-green, bright-yellow, bright-blue, bright-magenta, bright-cyan, bright-white]
  -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. Using Hyperfine.

Machine A

• AMD64, 32GB RAM, Ryzen 7 3800X, Windows 10.

Machine B

• ARM64, 1GB RAM, Orange Pi Zero2, Debian 12.

License

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