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A recursive Search Tool written in Rust

How many times have you gone through files in search of a string, or finding origin of a function.

Locate is a tool written in Rust which goes through each file and gives exact location of the string in the file.

Key Features

Works on Windows, MacOS and Linux
Blazing Fast
Finds String Deep Inside Directory Structure

Installation

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/pr4k/locate

# Build the project
cargo build --release

It will create a binary in target/release, copy it to /usr/bin and you are good to go.

Or simply do

cargo install locate

Give it a Test Run

Don't want to clone the project, No worries!!

Go to the releases and downlaod the latest release, copy it to /usr/bin that's all.

Usage

➜  ~ locate -h                       
Usage:
  locate [OPTIONS]

Recursive string locater in files

Optional arguments:
  -h,--help             Show this help message and exit
  -p,--path PATH        Path to folder
  -q,--query QUERY      Query string to find

Try locate -p /path/to/folder -q /string-to-be-searched

Demo

Click on image to get a Asciinema shot:

TO-DO

Add regex support for the search string
Control Folder depth for search
Provide option to replace the searched word by another

License

MIT license

Locate

Install / Use

README