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For some reason, I always seem to be looking for file and directory names. Since desktop search is a GUI and I'm a command line kind of guy, I got tired of waiting on PowerShell to slowly grind through the file system on its single thread. With lots of cores and an SSD, I shouldn't be waiting on simple file finds! On a plane trip I threw together this command line tool to speed up my file finding and give me an extra five seconds each day I used to spend waiting on file searches to finish. This little program scratched my itch and maybe someone will find it useful. | ||
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You can search with wild cards as well as regular expressions and for as many patterns as you want. It will also handle directory names if you want. Yes, it’s a full featured fast file finder. Here are all the command line flags and usage instructions: | ||
You can search with wild cards as well as regular expressions and for as many patterns as you want. It will also handle directory names if you want. Yes, it’s a full featured fast file finder. Version 2.0 is now about 30% faster and also handles very long filenames. | ||
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FF 1.0.0.0 | ||
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Here are all the command line flags and usage instructions: | ||
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FF 2.0.0.0 | ||
(c) 2012, John Robbins/Wintellect - [email protected] | ||
Find file and directory names fast! | ||
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-nostats - Don't show the search statistics at the end. Useful when | ||
you just want the list of matching files. (short: -ns) | ||
-path <directory> - The directory tree to search. The default is the current | ||
directory. (short: -p) | ||
directory. Because of command line parsing weakness in | ||
Windows, don't end the directories with '\' characters | ||
(short: -p) | ||
pattern* - The patterns/files to search for. Specify as many patterns | ||
as you want separated by spaces. Enclose patterns/files in | ||
quotes to use spaces in the pattern or name. | ||
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