cli-anything-everything

Agent-native CLI for Everything file search on Windows

Wraps Everything's es.exe with JSON output, UTF-8 encoding, REPL mode, and WSL/Linux dual-environment support.

Quick Start

pip install cli-anything-everything

# JSON search
cli-anything-everything --json search "*.xlsx" -n 10

# Interactive REPL
cli-anything-everything shell

Requirements

• Everything 1.4+ installed and running
• es.exe in a standard install path (auto-detected: C:\Program Files\Everything\, E:\Tool\Everything\)
• Python 3.10+

Features

• ✅ JSON output — structured, machine-readable results for AI agents
• ✅ GBK→UTF-8 — auto-converts Chinese Windows encoding
• ✅ REPL mode — interactive search with prompt-toolkit
• ✅ WSL-ready — detects and uses WSL paths to call Windows es.exe
• ✅ Full Everything syntax — regex, case, whole-word, path matching

Contributing

Part of the CLI-Anything ecosystem.