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Find files in subdirectories
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Find files in subdirectories

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/layflags/vim-find
• Owner: layflags
• Created: 2011-10-31T10:50:48.000Z (about 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2011-10-31T10:54:18.000Z (about 13 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-12T06:33:43.505Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: VimL
• Homepage: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Find_files_in_subdirectories
• Size: 85.9 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
# Find files in subdirectories #

by Vladimir Marek 2006

Version 6.0

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I'm working with big, nested workspaces and often I don't remember the exact path to the file, only its filename or part of the filename. If I know some of the text *in* the file, I could always recursively use 'vimgrep', but for searching on filenames alone I have been using:

	:!find . -name ...

to locate the file and then edit it. I was trying to find if there is some solution directly in Vim, and haven't found one. Closest were `:find` and `:globpath()`. `:find` works nearly as I need, but unfortunatelly it opens the first file of a given name without telling me that there are more. For `globpath()` I was unable to make it work with the `**` construction, so that it would look into all subdirectories under current directory.

So I wrote this small function. You can use it like this:

	:Find whatever.c - this opens the file "src/core/whatever.c"

If there is more than one match, it will present you a selection:

	:Find Makefile

	1 ./src/Makefile

	2 ./src/core/Makefile

	3 ./src/api/Makefile

	...

	89 ./src/deelply/hidden/Makefile

	90 ./Makefile

	Which ? (CR=nothing)

You may also use wildchars (whatever find(1) knows).

	:Find *stream*.c

	1 ./src/core/i_stream.c

	2 ./src/core/o_stream.c

	3 ./src/core/streamio.c

	Which ? (CR=nothing)

...

Read the [full article here](http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Find_files_in_subdirectories)!