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NAME

finddo - Search for files and run command

VERSION

This document describes version 0.002 of main (from Perl distribution App-finddo), released on 2017-08-16.

SYNOPSIS

Usage:

% finddo [options] [command] ...

DESCRIPTION

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:

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 --

OPTIONS

* marks required options.

Main options

--audio
--command-json=s

See --command.

--command=s@

Can be specified multiple times.

--dirs
--exists
--files
--image
--largest
--max-result=s, -n
--media
--newest
--oldest
--smallest
--sort=s

Valid values:

["mtime","-mtime","size","-size","name","-name"]
--video
-d

Shortcut for --dirs.

See --dirs.

-D

Shortcut for --no-dirs.

See --dirs.

-f

Shortcut for --files.

See --files.

-F

Shortcut for --no-files.

See --files.

Output options

--format=s

Choose output format, e.g. json, text.

Default value:

undef
--json

Set output format to json.

--naked-res

When outputing as JSON, strip result envelope.

Default value:

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]

Other options

--help, -h, -?

Display help message and exit.

--version, -v

Display program's version and exit.

COMPLETION

The script comes with a companion shell completer script (_finddo) for this script.

bash

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.

tcsh

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).

other shells

For fish and zsh, install shcompgen as described above.

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/App-finddo.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-App-finddo.

BUGS

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.

SEE ALSO

find. Unix command.

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

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.