Moonwalker walks your path tree looking for files matching a given subsequence. A subsequence is the string you are looking for where any number of letters has been removed.
E.G.: "hlo" is a subsequence of "hello".
In a second mode of operation Moonwalker can also filter lines from standard input according to a subsequence. This can be helpful if you don't have a tree of your files but a list of opened files, for example.
Please check mwalker(1) to find the modes of operation.
Filter files from a project directory:
$ cd ~/projects/myproject
$ mwalker filter . -limit=20 -mode=f amodelsuser
Filter lines coming from the standard input:
$ echo -e "line 1\nline2\nline3" | mwalker filter - -limit=1 2
Note the -mode flag has no effect when working with the standard input.
Moonwalker is written in lua and ships with a custom C extension.
The main loader (bin/mwalker) is a bash script that should take care of
starting the program. To build the lua C module you'll need to change to
the root directory of Moonwalker and run make.
Moonwalker is Copyright (C) 2011 Emmanuel Oga
See the file LICENSE for information of licensing and distribution.