Friends :: Easy Find Tool with Perl Regular Expressions.

This program is Discon. Newly rewritten version will be replaced soon.

Friends v.x.x.x-2017-03-24 with Perl RE ::

not alternative find , easy to find files with perl regular expression. easy exclude dir/path. no prune.

Friends who are good at finding out and doing something. (Provisional) 探しだして何かするのが得意なフレンズ(仮)

Friends Usage::

GNU find = Full match
friends = Partial match

friends "PCRE"
friends "PCRE" -E(-exclude) "PCRE exclude exp."

-E,-exclude exclude_arguments
-I,-include include_arguments

friends "*png" | xargs mpv {}

friends "png|jpg" | xargs mpv {}

friends '.*pcre.mkv\z' | xargs -i mpv {}

friends '.*pcre.py$' | xargs -n1 head {}

friends '.*pcre.mkv\z|.*pcre.png\z|.*pcre.ogg\z' | xargs -i mpv {}

friends "PCRE for Files" -E "PCRE for Path"
friends "PCRE for Files" -I "PCRE for Path"

-E -exclude
-I -include

./aaa/zzz/ccc/aaa.flac
./aaa/bbb/ccc/aaa.flac

tree .
├── 1.sh
├── aaa
│   ├── bbb
│   │   └── ccc
│   │   └── aaa.flac
│   └── zzz
│   └── ccc
│   └── aaa.flac
├── data

$ friends "aaa.flac" -E "./.*?/bbb/"

"./aaa/zzz/ccc/aaa.flac" <---only (2)

$ friends "aaa.flac" -E "./.*?/zzz/"

"./aaa/bbb/ccc/aaa.flac" <---only (1)

$ friends "aaa.flac" -I "./.*?/zzz/"

"./aaa/zzz/ccc/aaa.flac" <---only (2)

locale ja_JP.UTF-8
mulitibytes language support (japanese and maybe chinese )