Search In File

Includes utility methods and command to search text within file(s).

Installation

npm install --save search-in-file

Available Utility Methods

1. fileSearch(paths, textToSearch, options)

Search a text within files

Parameters:

• paths: Absolute path files to search.
• textToSearch: Text to search in files.
• options: Various options for file search.

Return value: A promise with a list of files in which text is present.

2. getFilesFromDir(dirPath, recursive, omitEmpty)

Get a list of files from a directory

Parameters:

• dirPath: Path of the directory to get files from.
• recursive: Get files recursively from directory.
• omitEmpty: A flag to omit empty files from result.

Return value: A list of files present in the given directory.

3. search(data, textToSearch, options)

Check if the text is present in given data

Parameters:

• data: Data to search from.
• textToSearch: Text to search.
• options: Various options for search.

Return value: true, if text is present in given data. Else false

Available Options

• recursive: Searches recursively in all sub-directories and files. Default false
• words: Searches for the exact word. Default false
• ignoreCase: Case in-sensitive search. Default false
• isRegex: Searches for the regular expression. Default false
• ignoreDir: Ignore the specified directories/path while searching. Default []
• fileMask: Only search in files with given extension. Default null
• searchResults: Type of search results to get. lineNo to get line with line number that contains given search text. Default filePaths

Usage As command line tool

To use this as a command line tool install this package globally using -g command.

Now, run command

search-in-file <text-to-search>

For example,

search-in-file hello

This will search for text "hello" in all the files from a directory where the command is run.

search-in-file hello world will search for text having either "hello" or "world". To search for hello world, use search-in-file "hello world". I.e. to search for text having more than one word, enclose the text in quotes.

There are the following flags available with this commands:

-p <path>, --path <path> : Path(s) of file/directory to search. Default: Current working directory

-w, --word : Search for exact word?

-i, --ignore-case : Ignore case while searching?

--reg : Consider "text-to-search" as regex?

-r, --recursive : Search recursively in sub-directories of a directory

-e <exclude-dir>, --exclude-dir <exclude-dir> : Directory/file(s) to exclude while searching

-f <file-mask>, --file-mask <file-mask> : Search in files with specific extension. Example: ".txt", ".js"

-s <type>, --search-results <type> : Type of search result. "filePaths"/"lineNo". Default: filePaths

Examples

search-in-file hello -p some-file-path

will search for text having hello in the specified file.

search-in-file hello -p some-dir-path

will search for text having hello in all the files in specified directory.

search-in-file hello -p some-dir-path -r

will search for text having hello in all the files in all subdirectories of the specified directory.

search-in-file hello -p some-dir-path -p some-other-dir-path

will search for text having hello in all the files in both the directories.

search-in-file hello -p some-dir-path -e dir-to-exclude

will search for text having hello in all the files in specified directory except the dir-to-exclude directory.

search-in-file hello -p some-dir-path -w

will search for the exact word hello.

search-in-file hello -p some-dir-path -w -i -f .txt

will search for the exact word hello (ignoring case) in all the with extension ".txt" in the specified directory

search-in-file hello -p some-dir-path -w -s lineNo

will search for the exact word hello and output the files along with the line number where the text is found.