finddo - Search for files and run command
This document describes version 0.002 of main (from Perl distribution App-finddo), released on 2017-08-16.
Usage:
% finddo [options] [command] ...
EARLY RELEASE, MANY FEATURES ARE NOT YET IMPLEMENTED OR DEFINED.
The finddo utility is a convenient alternative for the Unix find command, for the more specific purpose of running a command with the matching files as arguments. It provides convenience options such as --largest, --newest, or --media, --audio, --video, or -n. So to play the 3 newest songs, instead of doing:
--largest
--newest
--media
--audio
--video
-n
ls --sort=t *.mp3 *.m4a *.flac *.ogg 2>/dev/null | head -n3 | xargs mpv --
and still be tripped by quoting of problematic filenames, you can just say:
finddo --newest --audio -n3 -- mpv --
* marks required options.
*
See --command.
--command
Can be specified multiple times.
Valid values:
["mtime","-mtime","size","-size","name","-name"]
Shortcut for --dirs.
See --dirs.
--dirs
Shortcut for --no-dirs.
Shortcut for --files.
See --files.
--files
Shortcut for --no-files.
Choose output format, e.g. json, text.
Default value:
undef
Set output format to json.
When outputing as JSON, strip result envelope.
0
By default, when outputing as JSON, the full enveloped result is returned, e.g.:
[200,"OK",[1,2,3],{"func.extra"=>4}]
The reason is so you can get the status (1st element), status message (2nd element) as well as result metadata/extra result (4th element) instead of just the result (3rd element). However, sometimes you want just the result, e.g. when you want to pipe the result for more post-processing. In this case you can use `--naked-res` so you just get:
[1,2,3]
Display help message and exit.
Display program's version and exit.
The script comes with a companion shell completer script (_finddo) for this script.
To activate bash completion for this script, put:
complete -C _finddo finddo
in your bash startup (e.g. ~/.bashrc). Your next shell session will then recognize tab completion for the command. Or, you can also directly execute the line above in your shell to activate immediately.
It is recommended, however, that you install modules using cpanm-shcompgen which can activate shell completion for scripts immediately.
To activate tcsh completion for this script, put:
complete finddo 'p/*/`finddo`/'
in your tcsh startup (e.g. ~/.tcshrc). Your next shell session will then recognize tab completion for the command. Or, you can also directly execute the line above in your shell to activate immediately.
It is also recommended to install shcompgen (see above).
For fish and zsh, install shcompgen as described above.
Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/App-finddo.
Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-App-finddo.
Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=App-finddo
When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.
find. Unix command.
perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>
This software is copyright (c) 2017 by perlancar@cpan.org.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
To install App::finddo, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm App::finddo
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install App::finddo
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.