searchophile

Contains file search functionality, combining find, grep, and sed commands. This package is made platform-independent by using the Python tools refind, greplica, and sedeuce.

Contribution

Feel free to open a bug report or make a merge request on github.

Installation

This project is uploaded to PyPI at https://pypi.org/project/searchophile/

To install, ensure you are connected to the internet and execute: python3 -m pip install searchophile --upgrade

Ensure Python's scripts directory is under the environment variable PATH in order to be able to execute the CLI tools properly from command line.

CLI Tools

The following CLI commands are installed with this package.

• search : search and display contents of files and optionally replace
• csearch : calls search with filtering for C/C++ code files (.h, .hpp, .c, .cpp, .cxx, .cc) and output line numbers
• pysearch : calls search with filtering for Python code files (.py) and output line numbers
• refind : find clone written in Python
• greplica : grep clone written in Python
• sedeuce : sed clone written in Python

Search CLI Help

usage: search [-h] [-s SEARCH_STRING_OPT] [-r] [-i] [-l] [-n] [--whole-word]
              [--no-grep-tweaks] [--show-color | --no-color] [--root ROOT_DIR] [-a NAME]
              [-w PATH] [-x REGEX_NAME] [-e REGEX_PATH] [-M MAX_DEPTH] [-m MIN_DEPTH]
              [--replace REPLACE_STRING] [-t] [--show-errors] [--version] [--dry-run]
              [search_string]

Recursively search for files within a directory

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

grep Options:
  search_string         Search for this string in files (as positional)
  -s SEARCH_STRING_OPT, --string SEARCH_STRING_OPT
                        Search for this string in files (as option)
  -r, --regex-search    Search as regex instead of string
  -i, --ignore-case     Ignore case when searching
  -l, --list-file-names
                        List matching file names only for search operation
  -n, --show-line-number
                        Show line number in result
  --whole-word, --wholeword
                        Search with whole word only
  --no-grep-tweaks      Don't make any tweaks to the output of grep
  --show-color          Set to display color in search output (default: auto)
  --no-color            Set to not display color in search output (default: auto)

find options:
  --root ROOT_DIR       Root directory in which to search (default: cwd)
  -a NAME, --name NAME  File name globs used to narrow search
  -w PATH, --wholename PATH, --whole-name PATH, --path PATH
                        Relative file path globs used to narrow search
  -x REGEX_NAME, --regexname REGEX_NAME, --regex-name REGEX_NAME
                        File name regex globs used to narrow search
  -e REGEX_PATH, --regexwholename REGEX_PATH, --regex-whole-name REGEX_PATH,
  --regexpath REGEX_PATH, --regex-path REGEX_PATH
                        Relative file path regex globs used to narrow search
  -M MAX_DEPTH, --maxdepth MAX_DEPTH, --max-depth MAX_DEPTH
                        Maximum find directory depth (default: inf)
  -m MIN_DEPTH, --mindepth MIN_DEPTH, --min-depth MIN_DEPTH
                        Minimum find directory depth (default: 0)

sed options:
  --replace REPLACE_STRING
                        String to replace search string. If --regex is selected, this must be
                        compatible with sed substitute replace string.

other options:
  -t, --silent          Silence information & confirmations generated by this script. If this
                        is specified with replace operation, no output will displayed unless
                        there was an error.
  --show-errors         Show all errors to stderr instead of suppressing
  --version             output version information and exit
  --dry-run, --dryrun   Print equivalent find/grep/sed commands and exit.

All regular expressions must be in "extended" form.