jamestthompson3 / nimblef

A find / fd clone written in nim

nimblef

Nimblef is a utility for finding files like fd or find

Features

• Supports regular expressions
• Ignores patterns from .gitignore
• Smartcase search by default
• Blazingly fast ™

Installation

You need to have the nim compiler installed on your machine. Compile with the command nim c -d:release -o:nf nimblef.nim from the root folder.

Add the path containing the recently compiled binary to your $PATH

Usage

Use nf to recursively search all files in the current directory. If no arguments are given, nimblef will list all files.

nf .html lists all .html files

nf controller lists all files with controller in the name

nf --no-ignore lists all files without skipping those outlined in .gitignore

nimblef's Issues

Use glob for better pattern matching

glob Could help with better matching, rather than just using contains. Currently, using contains makes nimblef quite slow in very large directories ( like searching your home directory )

Smart file filtering by default.

Spend some time studying how fd filters files. By default nf is searching many more files than fd, causing it to be slower. However if both searchers are using --no-ignore, nf is faster

Support `--colors` option

fab seems like a good library to leverage in case users want to have some nice colors in their output.

Recursively search upward for `.gitignore`

Add some level of upward search to find .gitignore if it's not found, just run nf as if with --no-ignore