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Introduction

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efind (extendable find) searches for files in a directory

hierarchy.

Basically it's a wrapper for GNU find providing an easier

and more intuitive expression syntax. It can be extended by

custom functions to filter search results. Furthermore, it

has built-in sort and range functionality.

Usage

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Running efind without any argument the search expression is

read from standard input (stdin) and files are searched in

the user's home directory. A different directory and

expression can be specified with the --dir and --expr

options:

  $ efind --dir=/tmp --expr="size>1M and type=file"

efind tries to handle the first arguments as path(s) and

expression. It's valid to run efind the following way:

  $ efind ~/git ~/code "type=file and name='CHANGELOG'"

efind is shipped with a manpage, of course.

  $ man efind

Examples

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Print five largest files.

  $ efind . "type=file" \

            --order-by "-{bytes}" \

            --printf " %-10{kb} | %{path}\n" \

            --limit 5

Find first text document containing a string and stop

immediately.

  $ efind . "name='*.txt' and text_contains('find me')" \

    --limit 1

Filter audio files by artist and convert them to WAV:

  $ efind ~/Music \

          "extension_in('.mp3, .ogg') and \

          artist_matches('David Bowie')" \

          --exec sox "%{filename}" tmp/"%{name}.wav" \;

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