Py_find script realises a powerful pattern search in files from actual directory or directory tree, with no indexing (thus it is always up-to-date) and quite fast. It is usefultory or directory tree, with no indexing (thus it is always up-to-date) and quite fast. It is useful if you look for some file and have forgotten its name. Also binary files can be searched, many formats are understood.
Powerful pattern search in files from actual directory or directory tree:
- For successful matches, the filename is shown (with relative path), followed by the match itself in inverse letters (maybe cut to COLUMNS chars)
- show non printable characters as ‘?’;
- filetypes are recognized by suffix (case sensitive!):
- search also in gzip and bzip2 files;
- search in tar, tgz (from Python 2.3.) and zip archives and give the names of entries where a match was found;
- search text in OpenOffice documents (!);
- optional search in Postscript and PDF files (time consuming)
- skip jpg , gif and png files
options: recursive, ignore case, show all matches …
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