Locand - AND Search with Locate

Search for files whose names contain all search terms.

Requires locate so only works on Linux and other POSIX systems. Tested with Ubuntu Gutsy.

To find every file with the words “release” and “lsb” in name:

$ locand release lsb
nice -n 2  locate -i -- release | grep -i -- lsb
/var/lib/dpkg/info/lsb-release.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/lsb-release.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/lsb-release.md5sums
...

If you want to use it all the time, you can alias it

$ alias l='locand'
$ l foo bar
/home/tero/foobar
...

To make the alias permanent, put it in your .bashrc.

#!/usr/bin/env python
# locand - Locate files whose name contains all search terms, case insensitive.
# (c) 2008 Tero Karvinen http://www.iki.fi/karvinen

import subprocess
import sys, os

def locandPrint(terms):
	cmd="nice -n 2 "
	cmd+=" locate -i -- "+terms[0]
	for term in terms[1:]:
		cmd += " | grep -i -- "+term
	print cmd
	p = subprocess.call(cmd, shell=True)
	return True

def main():
	if len(sys.argv)<2:	# name of this command counts as one
		print "Usage: locand term1 [term2 [term3] ...] "
		sys.exit(os.EX_USAGE)
	try:
		locandPrint(sys.argv[1:])
	except KeyboardInterrupt:
		print "Exiting on user request..."
		sys.exit(os.EX_OK)

if __name__ == '__main__':
	main()