Key Features • Usage • Test Run • Demo • Installation • To-Do • License

A recursive Search Tool written in Rust

How many times have you gone through files in search of a string, or finding origin of a function.

Locate is a tool written in Rust which goes through each file and gives exact location of the string in the file.

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Key Features

• Works on Windows, MacOS and Linux

• Blazing Fast

  

• Finds String Deep Inside Directory Structure

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Installation

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/pr4k/locate

# Build the project
cargo build --release

It will create a binary in target/release, copy it to /usr/bin and you are good to go.

Or simply do

cargo install locate

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Give it a Test Run

Don't want to clone the project, No worries!!

Go to the releases and downlaod the latest release, copy it to /usr/bin that's all.

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Usage

➜  ~ locate -h                       
Usage:
  locate [OPTIONS]

Recursive string locater in files

Optional arguments:
  -h,--help             Show this help message and exit
  -p,--path PATH        Path to folder
  -q,--query QUERY      Query string to find

Try locate -p /path/to/folder -q /string-to-be-searched

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Demo

Click on image to get a Asciinema shot:

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TO-DO

• Add regex support for the search string
• Control Folder depth for search
• Provide option to replace the searched word by another

License

• MIT license
• Copyright 2020 © pr4k

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