https://github.com/guildofcalamity/csfind
A grep-style parsing and searching utility.
https://github.com/guildofcalamity/csfind
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A grep-style parsing and searching utility.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/guildofcalamity/csfind
- Owner: GuildOfCalamity
- License: mit
- Created: 2025-08-04T20:08:52.000Z (5 months ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-08-04T20:11:30.000Z (5 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-08-04T22:56:37.422Z (5 months ago)
- Topics: csharp, dotnet, parsing, search, visual-studio
- Language: C#
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- Size: 132 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 0
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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# csFind - Revision History
## v1.0.0.0 - August, 2025
**Dependencies**
| Assembly | Version |
| ---- | ---- |
| .NET Framework | 4.0.30319 |
- Initial release of **csFind** utility.
- This utility searches all `files` in the `drive` that contain a matching `term`
- Results are logged and output to the console
- This utility does not employ indexing
- Optional command line arguments:
- Use `--term ` to specify a match term (text to search for inside files)
- You can specify multiple terms using multiple `--term` arguments
- Use `--drive ` to specify a drive term
- Use `--pattern ` to specify a file search pattern term
- Use `--threads ` to specify total thread count term
- Use `--percent ` to specify the amount of terms that need to be discovered for a positive hit
- Use `--locate` to enable file search mode (files will not be opened and parsed, only matched based on the given pattern)
- Use `--months ` to specify the age of interest when using locate mode
- Only files that have been modified within the last `` months will be considered
- Multi-threading mode:
- In the interest of time, up to 4 threads will be used during the search process.
- This can be adjusted using the `--threads ` command line argument.
- You don't want to go crazy with the thread count; in most cases throwing more threads at a problem does not make it better, e.g. using 50 threads may cause the process to finish slightly faster but will bring the client machine to its knees. 2 to 8 threads is adequate for most systems.
> Multi-term search mode (similar to Grep)
```bash
csFind --drive d: --pattern *.log --percent 0.95 --term Banking --term Authorize --term Transaction
csFind --drive c:\temp --pattern *.log --percent 0.7 --threads 8 --term ssdeep --term warning --term combination --term result
```
> Locate mode examples (similar to Windows Explorer file search):
```bash
csFind --locate --drive d: --pattern app.config --threads 8
csFind --locate --drive x:\temp --pattern debug*.log --threads 2
csFind --locate --drive c: --pattern *guide.docx --threads 5 --months 24
```