gofind

Traverse all children directories on a file system looking for any file and print their contents.

Why

Linux has built-in commands that can be used to achieve the same purpose, namely find, but:

• find chokes on directories with spaces.
• With Go's concurrency primitives, Go can look for files in directories concurrently (and potentially, in parallel), whereas find traverses directories sequentially

Usage

$ gofind --help
-n string
      Filename
-p string
      Starting Path (default "/home/testuser1")

$ gofind -n .mysql_history
Found .mysql_history in: /home/testuser1
show databases;
use testdatabase;
select * from testtable;
...

$ sudo su - && gofind -n .mysql_history -p /home
Found .mysql_history in: /home/testuser1
...

Found .mysql_history in: /home/testuser2
...

Install

• You can build binaries from source if go is already installed:

  go get github.com/pmbenjamin/gofind
  

• Or download precompiled binaries from here