rohankumardubey / file-finder

file-finder

A faster alternative to find. It currently respects a gitignore in the directory being searched by ommitting files that match lines in the gitignore.

At a high level, this spawns two threads - one that goes through the file system, enqueuing files from the root and another that

My primary motivation for building this was to be able to use it with fzf. Specifically, with large projects, I wanted to limit the number of files to search through with fzf in vim.

Installation

There are no required dependencies. Currently it can be compiled simply with:

g++-7 -std=c++17 -O3 -Iff/include/ ff/ff.cpp

Until std::filesystem is supported by g++, this will only work with POSIX systems, specfically those with the dirent.h header (see ff/include/ff/filesystem.h for more details on the filesystem logic).

ff has been tested on Mac OS X 10.12.6 and Ubuntu 16.04.

This is also a buck project. You can install and use buck to compile the sources as well.

gflags is an optional dependency if you want support for flags, but right now there are no implemented flags.

TODOS (links to Github issues)

• Use cmake
• Use std::filesystem
• Add option for a $HOME/.ffrc