hound

I'm hoping someone has some advice or a tool to recommend for this particular problem. I have many tens of thousands of (binary) files in a few directories spread over a few filesystems. I'd like a way to search by filename (either pattern or regular expression). Right now I am using a quick script to compose a somewhat complex `find` command. This is otherwise effective but quite slow. Each query takes anywhere from 1-20 seconds. An alternative that I pursued was `mlocate`. A daily cron (or systemd timer as the case may be) script generates a database for each directory (e.g. `updatedb --database-root DIRECTORY_A --output DATABASE_A.db --require-visibility 0`). Then to search `locate --basename --database DATABASE_A.db:DATABASE_B.db:DATABASE_C.db PATTERN`. However unlike `find`, `mlocate` does not offer an ignore or '!'. I suppose I coul

For those who don't know this codebase was originally on code.google.com and was recently moved over. Codesearch also powers etsy's Hound (https://github.com/etsy/Hound) which is pretty cool.

Evidently so does Hound: https://github.com/etsy/Hound/tree/master/src/code.google.co...

Looks like there isn't any. But after a bit of code spelunking I found this: https://github.com/etsy/Hound/blob/master/src/hound/api/api.... (it basically tells the service how to interact with the outside world using mux - which, as a small aside, one of the more popular http routing packages in Go. But I wander...) How the frontend interacts with the backend per default can be found here: https://github.com/etsy/Hound/blob/master/pub/assets/js/houn... So it looks like wiring the default backend onto a custom frontend shouldn't be that difficult. Unless you want extra features ofcourse, because then it seems you need to learn a bit of Go ;)