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Parallel version of find command on Linux

On zsh shell, I put into my ~/.zshrc the following function :

ff () {
    parallel -j8 find {} -type f ::: $1/* | grep -i $2
}

The goal is to do a "parallel" version of classical find function.

But unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work : for example, in a directory containing R scripts, I am doing :

ff . '*.R'

But this command doesn't return anything. What is wrong with my function ff?

Solution

  • By default grep uses basic regular expressions, so calling the function with another asterisk should work

    ff . '**.R'

    to ignore files like foo.r.bar

    ff . '**.R$'