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find-file.r

REBOL [ Title: "Find a file in directories / folders" Date: 20-Jun-2002 Name: 'find-file File: %find-file.r Version: 1.0.0 Author: "Carl Sassenrath" Purpose: "Search all files for ones that contain a given string." Note: { Seems like this should be in the library somewhere, but I could not find it, and I use it a lot on some platforms where the built-in desktop search is not what I need. } Library: [ level: 'beginner platform: 'all type: [function tool] domain: [files] tested-under: none support: none license: none see-also: none ] ] find-file: func [ "Returns a block of files where target string was found" dir [file!] "Directory path to search" filter "File pattern to search or NONE for all, eg: *.r" target "String to find" /only "Only search dir, not sub-dirs" /local files out ][ print dir ; watch it go if any [not string? filter empty? filter] [filter: "*"] files: load dirize dir out: copy [] ; Search only files found in the directory: foreach file files [ ; (breadth first) if all [ #"/" <> last file find/any file filter find read/binary file: dir/:file target ; skip CRLF conversion ][ append out file ] ] ; Now search sub-directories: if not only [ foreach file files [ if #"/" == last file [ append out find-file dir/:file filter target ] ] ] out ] ;Examples: ;probe find-file %project/ none "example" ;probe find-file %../../ ".r" "rebol"
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