agforero / findRelevant

Python program designed for Makefiles.

findRelevant

Python program useful in Makefiles to help define variables like SRC and EXE with specificity. I built this because $(find) and all of its parameters got a little confusing. Run ./findRelevant.py -h to display the help menu:

Usage: ./findRelevant.py -flag <extension> (exclusions)

Flags:

• -help or -h displays options,
• -f returns only filenames with no extension,
• -o returns filenames with '.o' appended,
• -x returns filenames with '.exe' appended, and
• -e returns filenames with extensions kept.
• <extension> designates the extension to search for, and
• (exclusions) is optional; designates files to be excluded from output.

For example, in a directory containing file1.cpp file2.cpp file3.cpp file4.cpp file5.cpp,

./findRelevant.py -f .cpp file3.cpp file4.cpp would output

file1 file2 file5.