RapidRummage: Stupidly Simple, Stupidly Fast File Searching

RapidRummage is a shell script that uses macOS's Spotlight search utility to deliver fast and efficient file searching that then excludes what we don't want with grep. Yes, lol, stupid fast.

Key Features

• 🔍 Utilizes macOS's Spotlight.
• 🚀 Quick; reach for a sip of coffee and it'll already be done. Compared to the find/grep equivalent where you've finished your coffee, cleaned the cat litter and forgotten that you were working.
• 🍏 For macOS users.

Installation

To install RapidRummage, clone this repository and run the install.sh script. Assuming ~/.local/bin is in your PATH, this sets up the command rummage:

git clone https://github.com/webel/rapidrummage.git
cd rapidrummage
./install.sh

Usage

Just type rummage followed by your search query:

rummage <search_term> [working_dir] [excluded_dirs]

• search_term: What you're looking for.
• working_dir: (Optional) Where to look. Defaults to the current directory.
• excluded_dirs: (Optional) Directories you'd rather not see the output from.

Example

rummage somestring ~/dev/ "env venv repositories node_modules build dist .env .venv .git"