GOLAF

GO Local Alignment Fuzzy finder

Fuzzy word/text finder using Smith-Waterman algorithm for finding matches.

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Setup

Make sure go is installed

From within the base directory of this repository run following commands

git clone https://github.com/gwirn/golaf.git
cd golaf/src
go build -o golaf

After running the commands above, on unix systems you can either do mv golaf /usr/bin or run echo 'alias golaf="/PATH/TO/GOLAF"' >> ~/.bashrc (or ~/.zshrc depending on your shell) in order to make GOLAF easier accessible.

Usage

Basic search can be done with golaf [PATTERN] [FILE | STDIN] to search in files or in stdin.

The search can also be performed reading from StdIn with e.g. cat [FILE | STDIN] | golaf [PATTERN]

In order to fuzzy find files or directories by their name but not their content -type has to be set to n.

To search trough all directories starting in a given directory use the -recursive argument (this can be used for file content and for file/directory search).

Possible optional argument

SYNOPSIS golaf [-bin] [-color] [-gapp] [-match] [-mmp] [-quality] [-recH] [-recursive] [-type] [pattern] [file ...]
  -bin
        include binary files in the search
  -color string
        color option for highlighting the found results- options: [ red green yellow blue purple cyan white ] (default "green")
  -gapp int
        gap penalty [NEGATIVE] (default -2)
  -match int
        score for a match [POSITIVE] (default 3)
  -mmp int
        mismatch penalty [NEGATIVE] (default -3)
  -quality int
        percentage of the pattern that have to match to be seen as match (default 75)
  -recH
        include hidden files in the search
  -recursive string
        root directory for recursively searching through all files (default ".")
  -type string
        Search type
        c - search in file content
        n - search for files and directories (default "c")