scanit 🔍

A command-line utility that recursively searches directories for files matching regex patterns.

Notably this is my first RUST cli and first time using git

🚀 Features

• Unix and Windows Compatible
• Recursive directory scanning
• Regex pattern matching
• Hidden file support
• Cross-platform compatibility (Unix and Windows)
• Current directory search option

⚙️ Installation

cargo install scanit

📝 Changelog

version=[0.2.5]

Changed underlying structure to better enable use as a library. Mostly, this means that now the find files returns an Iterator, which allows the collect method(or iteration)

Added a case-insensitivity option.

Increased performance again, roughly about 30% on my limited tests

Lowered Rust Version required to 1.74.1 for people on older Rust versions.

version=[0.2.1]

Changes

• Fixed working directory commandline options

version=[0.2.0]

Fixed

• Reduced redundant conversion errors when scanning restricted paths
• Improved error handling for kernel-protected directories
• Optimized path traversal logic
• Fixed README.md
• Added new CLI argument for including dirs in searching, defaults to off

Changed

• Improved performance when handling permission denied errors

🔧 Dependencies

Special thanks to:

jwalk - For the excellent parallel directory traversal

regex - For the powerful regex engine

clap - For the robust CLI argument parsing

Examples

Find Rust files in /usr

scanit '.rs$' -d /usr

Find PNG files from current directory

scanit '.png$' -c

(or equivalently, scanit '.png$' --current-directory)

Find JavaScript test files

scanit '^/.test..js$'

Find hidden git files

scanit -a '.git'

Search all dirs and file names for a pattern eg zshrc

scanit zshrc -a -i

(or equivalently, scanit zshrc --show-hidden --include-dirs)

Search case insensitively

scanit PYTHON -e
(or equivalently, --case-insensitive) (e is for everything)

Usage Instructions

Usage: scanit [OPTIONS]

Arguments: Regex pattern to match files (e.g. \.rs$)

Options