README.md

🔍 File/Directory Search Script

Features

• 🔍 Search for files or directories by name
• 🎯 Choose between exact matches or partial containment
• 🔄 Recursive search through all subdirectories
• 💻 Simple interactive command-line interface
• ⚡ Fast scanning using native Python os.walk()

🛠 Installation

1. Make sure you are on Linux
2. Confirm that Python 3 is installed
3. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/DelorianCS/search-script.git
cd search-script
python3 search.py

✅ You can also make it a terminal command:

nano ~/.bashrc  | or ~/.zshrc

Add this at the bottom:

search() { python3 /FULL/PATH/TO/search.py ; }

Now you can run search in any terminal window!

🔧 Usage (Interactive Mode)

The script will ask you a few questions:

Where do you want to search?:

Example: /home/user/Downloads/

Are you looking for a file or a directory? (file/directory):

What name are you looking for?:

Just the name, without extension.
❌ file.txt → ❌
✅ file → ✅

Should the name match exactly or just contain it? (exact/contain):

After that, the search begins — and you'll see matching results printed out.

❤️ Thanks for reading

Hope you found this script useful!
Suggestions and contributions are welcome.