mcorybillington / sharpfind

.NET utility to mimic some of the functionality of the unix command find, such as finding writable and/or recently modified files.

SharpFind

Simple c# application to mimic some of the functionality of the linux find command.

• Lists full path of files
• Can search by file name/wildcard
• Can set CPU priority to limit resource usage (in comparison to other processes)
• Can find files modified in the last n minutes
• Can find writable files by the current user
• Identify .NET assemblies

Usage

SharpFind.exe /p:<absolute-or-relative-path> /e:<search-pattern> /c:<cpu-priority> /m:<minutes-since-last-modification> /w

/p:<path> path to search. Relative or absolute is acceptable
/e:<search-pattern> * is wildcard
/c:<cpu-priority> OS CPU priority compared to other proccesses. Valid values are 0-5, 5 being highest priority
/m:<minutes-since-last-modification> Find files modified in the last n minutes
/w Only return files wrtitable by the current user. Will show '[WRITE LOCKED]' for files that are locked for writing.
/n Only return files that are valid .NET assemblies

Example

SharpFind.exe /p:c:\users\bob /e:*lolcats.ext* /c:0 /m:10 /w /n

This will look for all files in c:\users\bob where the file name contains lolcats.ext. It will set CPU priority to 0, thus nearly everything except for other processes set to zero will get priority over SharpFind.exe. It will only return files that have been modified in the last ten minutes and that are writable by the user running SharpFind.exe and that are valid .NET assemblies.

Credits

M. Cory Billington @_th3y