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.

Command	Mean [ms]	Min [ms]	Max [ms]	Relative
dir /s /b *clap*	74.9 ± 1.8	72.2	81.8	1.23 ± 0.04
findstr /s /m /c:clap *	805.9 ± 10.1	798.8	825.9	13.22 ± 0.31
lookfor clap	61.0 ± 1.2	59.6	64.9	1.00

Machine B

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

Command	Mean [ms]	Min [ms]	Max [ms]	Relative
find . -iname "*clap*"	29.5 ± 4.4	27.8	54.6	1.20 ± 0.18
lookfor clap	24.6 ± 0.6	23.4	27.8	1.00

License

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