A simple script to let you jump around the file system a little faster.

fsquery is a filesytem search program, like locate, except fsquery is supposed to search the filesytem in real time (locate requires running updatedb each time before use if your filesystem has changes - my files change regularly so locate doesn't work well for me). Currently fsquery is very slow.

fsquery was inspired by jquery (css selectors really), it allows you to send in queries for files, for example:

fsquery components/ *.php

would search for any files ending in .php that have a components parent folder.

in future I would like to extend the queries to allow selecting files by their contents.

I designed fsquery for my own use, this sort of query is very useful for me due to the particular layout of files that I interact with, I have lots of files and folders with similar names and it's useful to be able to query through them to quickly find the ones I'm looking for.

For example, commands of the form:

vim `fsquery --first components/ images/ somefile.php`

or:

cd `fsquery --first components/ images/`

save me some typing when searching for stuff.

in these cases I could probably leave out the images/ parts of the queries and they would still work. It's much shorter than remembering & typing out the whole path.

(actually I have aliased f to fsquery, so it's a little shorter when I use it.)