fselect

You might be interested in rawhide[1] or fselect[2]. (Note: I don't really use them myself, but they seem to offer something like what you're suggesting.) Also, this is still a find-style syntax, but my bfs utility supports -exclude [3]. So you can write bfs -type f -exclude -path ./excluded_dir which is a bit more ergonomic. [1]: https://github.com/raforg/rawhide [2]: https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect [3]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/blob/main/docs/USAGE.md#-e...

If you're trying to replace find, please add something equivalent to find's -print0/-ls to feed it's output into xargs. Otherwise it may not work correctly on unusually named files (not that I've tried it yet). EDIT: seems to be a similar issue with fselect: https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect/issues/150

Maybe you should take a look at fselect, that uses SQL dialect for search queries and supports archives (and much more). https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect

If you are looking for something similar but for other platforms, there is fselect[1]. Can do all that, and tries to adhere to SQL. [1] https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect

Shameless plug: a tool I wrote to manage downloads directory :) https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect

https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect A tiny tool I wrote to search within file piles (mostly unsorted downloads, torrents, and such). I could never remember `find` options, and more advanced queries are a pain. Now one can use some kind of SQL flavor to get the job done.

You can do that kind of things already, albeit not from within a single universal shell: - https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect - https://github.com/osquery/osquery

If you like the sql-like filesystem interaction, check out: https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect I've integrated this into my workflow, it's a polished tool.

In case you are interested in more sophisticated ls or find, try fselect ( https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect ). That tool supports JSON as output as well. Fselect has few really cool features, esp. when you got to deal with complex queries. Although not unix way at all.

I'd argue this is more about quacking like a PowerShell than manipulating xSV/JSON in the pipeline. So here's my quick bunch of links that show the demand for that. Here people emulate formatted and filtered ps(1) using GVariants and a bunch of CLI tools: https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2012/08/10/rethinking-the-shel... Here people use SQL to query and format data right from the shell: https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect https://github.com/facebook/osquery Also, libxo is a library that allows tools like ls(1) in FreeBSD to generate data in various formats (e.g. JSON): https://wiki.freebsd.org/LibXo (edit: formatting)

I became addicted to these great tools all written in Rust: fselect - https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect ripgrep - https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep exa - https://the.exa.website They are the replacements for traditional find, grep, and ls.