1 ;;; find-cmd.el --- Build a valid find(1) command with sexps
3 ;; Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Author: Philip Jackson <phil@shellarchive.co.uk>
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25 ;; With this module you can build up a (hopefully) valid find(1)
26 ;; string ready for the command line. For example:
28 ;; (find-cmd '(prune (name ".svn" ".git" ".CVS"))
29 ;; '(and (or (name "*.pl" "*.pm" "*.t")
31 ;; (fstype "nfs" "ufs"))))
33 ;; will become (un-wrapped):
35 ;; "find '/home/phil/' \\( \\( -name '.svn' -or -name '.git' -or
36 ;; -name '.CVS' \\) -prune -or -true \\) \\( \\( \\( -name '*.pl'
37 ;; -or -name '*.pm' -or -name '*.t' \\) -or -mtime '+1' \\) -and \\(
38 ;; -fstype 'nfs' -or -fstype 'ufs' \\) \\)"
42 (defconst find-constituents
95 ;; normal options (always true)
102 (ignore_readdir_race .
(0))
103 (noignore_readdir_race .
(0))
118 ;; these need to be terminated with a ;
119 (exec .
(1 find-command t
))
120 (ok .
(1 find-command t
))
121 (execdir .
(1 find-command t
))
122 (okdir .
(1 find-command t
)))
123 "Holds details of each of the find options. The car of each
124 alist is the name. The cdr is minimum args, the function used
125 to join many occurences of the argument together, and whether or
126 not to leave quotes off the string (non-nil means the string will
130 (defun find-cmd (&rest subfinds
)
131 "Initiate the building of a find command. For exmple:
133 \(find-cmd '\(prune \(name \".svn\" \".git\" \".CVS\"\)\)
134 '\(and \(or \(name \"*.pl\" \"*.pm\" \"*.t\"\)
136 \(fstype \"nfs\" \"ufs\"\)\)\)\)
138 `default-directory' is used as the initial search path. The
139 result is a string that should be ready for the command line."
141 "find " (shell-quote-argument (expand-file-name default-directory
)) " "
144 (mapconcat 'find-to-string subfinds
""))
146 (find-to-string (car subfinds
))))))
148 (defun find-and (form)
149 "And FORMs together, so:
150 \(and \(mtime \"+1\"\) \(name \"something\"\)\)
152 find . \\\( -mtime '+1' -and -name 'something' \\\)"
153 (if (< (length form
) 2)
154 (find-to-string (car form
))
156 (mapconcat 'find-to-string form
"-and ")
159 (defun find-or (form)
160 "Or FORMs together, so:
161 \(or \(mtime \"+1\"\) \(name \"something\"\)\)
163 find . \\\( -mtime '+1' -or -name 'something' \\\)"
164 (if (< (length form
) 2)
165 (find-to-string (car form
))
167 (mapconcat 'find-to-string form
"-or ")
170 (defun find-not (form)
171 "Or FORMs together and prefix with a -not, so:
172 \(not \(mtime \"+1\"\) \(name \"something\"\)\)
174 -not \\\( -mtime '+1' -or -name 'something' \\\)
175 If you wanted the FORMs -and(ed) together instead then this would
177 \(not \(and \(mtime \"+1\"\) \(name \"something\"\)\)\)"
178 (concat "-not " (find-or (mapcar 'find-to-string form
))))
180 (defun find-prune (form)
181 "-or together FORM(s) postfix '-prune' and then -or that with a
183 \(prune \(name \".svn\" \".git\"\)\) \(name \"*.pm\"\)
184 will produce (unwrapped):
185 \\\( \\\( \\\( -name '.svn' -or -name '.git' \\\) /
186 -prune -or -true \\\) -and -name '*.pm' \\\)"
189 (concat (find-or (mapcar 'find-to-string form
)) (find-generic "prune"))
190 (find-generic "true"))))
192 (defun find-generic (option &optional oper argcount args dont-quote
)
193 "This function allows an arbitrary string to be used as a
194 form. OPTION is the name of the form, OPER is the function used
195 to either OR or AND multiple results together. ARGCOUNT is the
196 minimum of args that OPTION can receive and ARGS are the
197 arguments for OPTION."
198 (when (and (numberp argcount
) (< (length args
) argcount
))
199 (error "'%s' needs at least %d arguments" option argcount
))
200 (let ((oper (or oper
'find-or
)))
201 (if (and args
(length args
))
202 (funcall oper
(mapcar (lambda (x)
207 (shell-quote-argument x
)
210 (concat "-" option
" "))))
212 (defun find-command (form)
213 "For each item in FORM add a terminating semi-colon and turn
214 them into valid switches. The result is -and(ed) together."
215 (find-and (mapcar (lambda (x)
216 (concat (find-to-string x
) "\\; "))
219 (defun find-to-string (form)
220 "Parse FORM to produce a set of valid find arguments."
225 (let ((option (cdr (assoc (car form
) find-constituents
))))
227 ((and (symbolp option
) (fboundp option
))
228 (funcall option
(cdr form
)))
230 (let ((option (symbol-name (car form
)))
231 (argcnt (car option
))
233 (dont-quote (car (cddr option
))))
235 (find-generic option oper argcnt
(cdr form
) dont-quote
))))
237 (error "Sorry I don't know how to handle '%s'" (car form
))))))))
241 ;; arch-tag: 9687fd9e-4e90-4022-864a-f904526e2046
242 ;;; find-cmd.el ends here