RegexFileSearcher

Cross-platform regex file searching tool in .NET 5.

Protip: use the RegexTestBench to test your regexes before using them in this tool.

Running

Windows

• Start the app with RegexFileSearcher.Wpf.exe

Linux

• Start the app from the terminal with ./RegexFileSearcher.Gtk

Mac

• Complete compiling steps below, which will create the file RegexFileSearcher/RegexFileSearcher.Mac/bin/Release/net5.0/osx-x64/osx-x64/RegexFileSearcher.Mac.app
• Start the app from the terminal with open RegexFileSearcher/RegexFileSearcher.Mac/bin/Release/net5.0/osx-x64/osx-x64/RegexFileSearcher.Mac.app
• Start the app from Finder by double-clicking RegexFileSearch.Mac (the .app file extension will be hidden by default)

Compiling

Windows

• Download and open the repo in Visual Studio 2019
• Publish RegexFileSearcher.Wpf

Linux

• Install the .NET 5 SDK
• You need to have GTK3 installed too
• Git clone
• Publish with dotnet publish RegexFileSearcher/RegexFileSearcher.Gtk/RegexFileSearcher.Gtk.csproj --configuration Release --output publish --self-contained true -p:PublishSingleFile=true --runtime linux-x64 --framework net5.0

Mac

• Install Visual Studio 2019 for Mac
• Git clone
• Publish with dotnet publish RegexFileSearcher/RegexFileSearcher.Mac/RegexFileSearcher.Mac.csproj --configuration Release --output publish --self-contained true -p:PublishSingleFile=true --runtime osx-x64 --framework net5.0

Debugging

Windows

• With Visual Studio 2019 Community
  • Set RegexFileSearcher.Wpf as startup project
• Or with Visual Studio Code

Linux

• With Visual Studio Code

launch.json:

 {
    // Use IntelliSense to learn about possible attributes.
    // Hover to view descriptions of existing attributes.
    // For more information, visit: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=830387
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
        "name": "Debug on Linux",
        "type": "coreclr",
        "request": "launch",
        "preLaunchTask": "build",
        "program": "dotnet",
        "args": ["${workspaceFolder}/RegexFileSearcher/RegexFileSearcher.Gtk/bin/Debug/net5.0/RegexFileSearcher.Gtk.dll"],
        "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
        "stopAtEntry": false,
        "console": "internalConsole"
    }]
}

tasks.json

{
    "version": "2.0.0",
    "tasks": [
        {
            "label": "build",
            "command": "dotnet",
            "type": "process",
            "args": [
                "build",
                "${workspaceFolder}/RegexFileSearcher/RegexFileSearcher.Gtk/RegexFileSearcher.Gtk.csproj",
                "/property:GenerateFullPaths=true",
                "/consoleloggerparameters:NoSummary"
            ],
            "problemMatcher": "$msCompile"
        },
        {
            "label": "publish",
            "command": "dotnet",
            "type": "process",
            "args": [
                "publish",
                "${workspaceFolder}/RegexFileSearcher/RegexFileSearcher.Gtk/RegexFileSearcher.Gtk.csproj",
                "/property:GenerateFullPaths=true",
                "/consoleloggerparameters:NoSummary"
            ],
            "problemMatcher": "$msCompile"
        },
        {
            "label": "watch",
            "command": "dotnet",
            "type": "process",
            "args": [
                "watch",
                "run",
                "${workspaceFolder}/RegexFileSearcher/RegexFileSearcher.Gtk/RegexFileSearcher.Gtk.csproj",
                "/property:GenerateFullPaths=true",
                "/consoleloggerparameters:NoSummary"
            ],
            "problemMatcher": "$msCompile"
        }
    ]
}

Mac

• With Visual Studio 2019 for Mac, I guess