finder

Command Line Interface tool which helps in finding a given text/pattern in a given folder/file path(s).

Links

• Project: https://github.com/bharadwajyarlagadda/finder
• Documentation: http://finder.readthedocs.io
• Pypi: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/finder
• TravisCI: https://travis-ci.org/bharadwajyarlagadda/finder

Quickstart

Install using pip:

pip install finder

Features

• Finds given text/pattern in the given file path(s).
• Iterates through all the non-executable files in a given directory path.
• Avoids all the non-readable files in a given directory path.
• Supported on Python 3.3+.

Command Line

Search for a pattern in a given file path

$ finder search --path='~/finder/setup.py' --pattern='port'
/home/aj/Projects/finder/setup.py:4: import os
/home/aj/Projects/finder/setup.py:5: from setuptools import setup, find_packages

Search for a pattern in given directory path

$ finder search --path='~/finder' --pattern='port'
/home/aj/Projects/finder/.gitignore:37: # Unit test / coverage reports
/home/aj/Projects/finder/LICENSE.rst:16: copies or substantial portions of the Software.
/home/aj/Projects/finder/setup.cfg:2: addopts = --doctest-modules -v -s --color=yes --cov-config=setup.cfg --cov-report=term-missing
/home/aj/Projects/finder/setup.py:4: import os
...

Check the error occurred only if there is an error occurred while searching the file

$ finder search --path='~/finder' --pattern='port' --verbose
/home/aj/Projects/finder/.gitignore:37: # Unit test / coverage reports
/home/aj/Projects/finder/LICENSE.rst:16: copies or substantial portions of the Software.
/home/aj/Projects/finder/setup.cfg:2: addopts = --doctest-modules -v -s --color=yes --cov-config=setup.cfg --cov-report=term-missing
/home/aj/Projects/finder/setup.py:4: import os
...
...
UnicodeDecodeError:/home/aj/Projects/finder/tests/__pycache__/test_find.cpython-35-PYTEST.pyc:'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xf5 in position 5: invalid start byte None
UnicodeDecodeError:/home/aj/Projects/finder/tests/__pycache__/test_cli.cpython-35-PYTEST.pyc:'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xf5 in position 5: invalid start byte
...