RbFind

A substitute for the Unix find tool using Ruby expressions

Description

RbFind does the same as the standard Unix find tool but has a different calling syntax. Specify your search reqest as a Ruby expression.

Features

• ls long format style output
• Built-in grep
• Colored ls and grep output
• Automatically exclude version control system or Vim swap files
• No dependecies

Example

Find files that were modified in the last five minutes.

rbfind -p 'file and age < 5.m'

Grep whole directory but skip .git/ or .svn/, and .filename.swp.

rbfind -CWg require

Save time and do not grep large files.

rbfind 'filesize < 100.kB and grep /require/'

Output ls long format.

rbfind -P

Print MD5 digest and size for each file.

rbfind 'spacesep digest_md5, size.w8, path'

Copyright

• (C) 2008-2025, Bertram Scharpf software@bertram-scharpf.de
• License: BSD-2-Clause+
• Repository: ruby-nvim