1 ;;; find-cmd.el --- Build a valid find(1) command with sexps
3 ;; Copyright (C) 2008-2015 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' \\) \\)"
44 (defconst find-constituents
102 ;; normal options (always true)
109 (ignore_readdir_race .
(0))
110 (noignore_readdir_race .
(0))
127 ;; these need to be terminated with a ;
128 (exec .
(1 find-command t
))
129 (ok .
(1 find-command t
))
130 (execdir .
(1 find-command t
))
131 (okdir .
(1 find-command t
)))
132 "Holds details of each of the find options.
133 The car of each alist is the name. The cdr is minimum args, the
134 function used to join many occurrences of the argument together,
135 and whether or not to leave quotes off the string (non-nil means
136 the string will be quoted).")
139 (defun find-cmd (&rest subfinds
)
140 "Initiate the building of a find command.
143 \(find-cmd \\='\(prune \(name \".svn\" \".git\" \".CVS\"\)\)
144 \\='\(and \(or \(name \"*.pl\" \"*.pm\" \"*.t\"\)
146 \(fstype \"nfs\" \"ufs\"\)\)\)\)
148 `default-directory' is used as the initial search path. The
149 result is a string that should be ready for the command line."
150 ;; FIXME: Provide a version that returns a list of strings (ready to pass to
152 (concat find-program
" "
153 (shell-quote-argument (expand-file-name default-directory
)) " "
156 (mapconcat #'find-to-string subfinds
""))
158 (find-to-string (car subfinds
))))))
160 (defun find-and (form)
161 "And FORMs together, so:
162 \(and \(mtime \"+1\"\) \(name \"something\"\)\)
164 find . \\\( -mtime +1 -and -name something \\\)"
165 (if (< (length form
) 2)
166 (find-to-string (car form
))
168 (mapconcat #'find-to-string form
"-and ")
171 (defun find-or (form)
172 "Or FORMs together, so:
173 \(or \(mtime \"+1\"\) \(name \"something\"\)\)
175 find . \\\( -mtime +1 -or -name something \\\)"
176 (if (< (length form
) 2)
177 (find-to-string (car form
))
179 (mapconcat #'find-to-string form
"-or ")
182 (defun find-not (form)
183 "Or FORMs together and prefix with a -not, so:
184 \(not \(mtime \"+1\"\) \(name \"something\"\)\)
186 -not \\\( -mtime +1 -or -name something \\\)
187 If you wanted the FORMs -and(ed) together instead then this would
189 \(not \(and \(mtime \"+1\"\) \(name \"something\"\)\)\)"
190 (concat "-not " (find-or (mapcar #'find-to-string form
))))
192 (defun find-prune (form)
193 "-or together FORMs postfix `-prune' and then -or that with a
195 \(\(prune \(name \".svn\" \".git\"\)\) \(name \"*.pm\"\)\)
196 will produce (unwrapped):
197 \\\( \\\( \\\( -name .svn -or -name .git \\\) /
198 -prune -or -true \\\) -and -name *.pm \\\)"
201 (concat (find-or (mapcar #'find-to-string form
)) (find-generic "prune"))
202 (find-generic "true"))))
204 (defun find-generic (option &optional oper argcount args dont-quote
)
205 "Allow an arbitrary string to be used as a form.
206 OPTION is the name of the form, OPER is the function used to either
207 OR or AND multiple results together. ARGCOUNT is the minimum of
208 args that OPTION can receive and ARGS are the arguments for OPTION.
209 If DONT-QUOTE is non-nil, arguments are quoted for passing them to
211 (when (and (numberp argcount
) (< (length args
) argcount
))
212 (error "`%s' needs at least %d arguments" option argcount
))
213 (let ((oper (or oper
'find-or
)))
214 (if (and args
(length args
))
215 (funcall oper
(mapcar (lambda (x)
220 (shell-quote-argument x
)
223 (concat "-" option
" "))))
225 (defun find-command (form)
226 "For each item in FORM add a terminating semi-colon and turn
227 them into valid switches. The result is -and(ed) together."
228 (find-and (mapcar (lambda (x)
229 (concat (find-to-string x
) "\\; "))
232 (defun find-to-string (form)
233 "Parse FORM to produce a set of valid find arguments."
238 (let ((option (cdr (assoc (car form
) find-constituents
))))
240 ((and (symbolp option
) (fboundp option
))
241 (funcall option
(cdr form
)))
243 (let ((option (symbol-name (car form
)))
244 (argcnt (car option
))
246 (dont-quote (car (cddr option
))))
248 (find-generic option oper argcnt
(cdr form
) dont-quote
))))
250 (error "Sorry I don't know how to handle `%s'" (car form
))))))))
254 ;;; find-cmd.el ends here