Houdini - File Search

Extension for searching files in a directory or recursively in all nested directories on the disk and displaying them in a dropdown menu.

Key Features:

• Filter by Mask with standard syntax or Regular Expression on Python.*
• Sort results by Name, Modification, or Creation Time, and Directory Depth.
• Group Result by Python Regular Expression with Including or Excluding option from filename and display in a dropdown menu only the newest files.**
• Replace parts of the filename with Custom String or Regular Expression.***
• Enable or Disable Recursive mode and limit the depth of searching.

* Mask has two options:

Simple:

* - matches everything

? - matches any single character

[seq] - matches any character in seq

[!seq] - matches any character not in seq

Regular Expression:

Documentation: Python Regular Expression Documentation

You can check your pattern: RegEx101.com

• Example to show files with multiple extensions: [.](abc|fbx|obj|bgeo)
• Example to exclude files with "animation" in the filename:
  (?<!animation)[.](abc|fbx|obj|bgeo) → char_woman_animation.abc (exclude from the result)
  (?<!animation)_.+[.](abc|fbx|obj|bgeo) → char_woman_animation_v001.abc (exclude from the result)

** You can group by any pattern. This pattern takes a part from the filename to set as a group name or removes it from the file name to get the same filenames for grouping.

Example 1:

character_animation_v001.abc, character_animation_v002.abc, character_animation_v003.abc, character_animation_v004.abc, character_animation_v005.abc → character_animation_v005.abc

Group Pattern: v\d{1, 3} or v\d+

Pattern Mode: Exclude (removing v001, v002, v003, v004, v005 from filenames to get the same name for grouping)

Partition: 1 (element's count will be displayed in the dropdown menu)

Partition Mode: From Start (to get 1st element if you sort by Descending Order) or From End (to get 1st element if you sort by Ascending Order)

*** You can replace any part of the filename. And display in a dropdown menu unique items:

Example 1:

brick (albedo).jpg, brick (roughness).jpg, brick (specular).jpg, brick (normal).jpg, brick (bump).jpg → brick ($OS).jpg

Replace from: [Aa]lbedo|[Rr]oughness|[Ss]pecular|[Nn]ormal|[Bb]ump

Replace to: \$OS (slash is required to escape variables)

Example 2:

skin_color.1001.png, skin_color.1002.png, skin_color.1003.png → skin_color.<UDIM>.png

Replace from: \d{4}

Replace to: <UDIM>