findx

The findx is a wrapper of the find command, and extents the find some way for easy use.

Install

$ npm install -g findx

or

$ git clone https://github.com/Gyumeijie/findx.git
$ cd findx
$ ./install

Using npm is recommended, for it is easy to uninstall and upgrade.

Usage

Currently, findx extents the -exec of find.

findx /path/to/find -exec 'cmd1, cmd2, cmd3;' -exec 'cmd4, cmd5;'

command can reference each matched file by $file. Use , to separate command, and ; or \; to terminate(; is recommended).

Caveat: please use ' ' to enclose commands instead of " ". :exclamation::exclamation::exclamation:

For example, give /tmp/test/find has the following structure:

.
├── example10.jpg
├── example1.jpg
├── example2.jpg
├── example3.jpg
├── example4.jpg
├── example5.jpg
├── example6.jpg
├── example7.jpg
├── example8.jpg
└── example9.jpg

Now we want to change the suffix of these files to png, with findx we can do this:

findx /tmp/test/find -name "*.jpg" -exec 'name=${file%.*}, mv $file ${name}.png;'

.
├── example10.png
├── example1.png
├── example2.png
├── example3.png
├── example4.png
├── example5.png
├── example6.png
├── example7.png
├── example8.png
└── example9.png

Guide

Theoretically, we can use any valid shell commands inside -exec, but we don't recommand writing a string of commands in this way, the preferred way is to use a shell script file which includes these commands.