pathsearch

pathsearch is a Rust program that searches the user's PATH for a given query, providing a list of executables that match the query. This program was written with the help of AI, using the GPT-3.5 architecture from OpenAI.

Features

• Searches the user's PATH for a given search query
• Outputs all the executables in the PATH if no search query is provided
• Supports substring, regex, and fuzzy searches
• Can sort substring searches by similarity to the given search query
• Colorizes the output for easier reading

Usage

Usage: pathsearch [OPTIONS] [filename]

Arguments:
  [filename]  Search query

Options:
  -r, --regex          Use regex matching
  -f, --fuzzy          Use fuzzy matching
  -s, --sort           Sort files by similarity to search
      --color <COLOR>  Choose whether to emit color output [default: auto] [possible values: auto, always, never]
  -h, --help           Print help
  -V, --version        Print version

Examples

Search for executables that contain the substring "vim" and sorted by similarity:

$ pathsearch -s vim
/usr/bin/vim
/usr/bin/rvim
/usr/bin/nvim
/usr/bin/vimdot
/usr/bin/vimdiff
/usr/bin/vimtutor
/usr/bin/nvimgdiff

Interactive Fuzzy Searching

The output of pathsearch can be consumed by skim or fzf for easy interactive querying.

pathsearch | sk

Optionally, force color on:

pathsearch --color always firefox | sk --ansi