islandiguana

Searching the Obsidian Vault with islandiguana

islandiguana recursively searches Markdown files by their YAML front matter using yq expression syntax.

Binary: /Users/mtm/go/bin/islandiguana

Vault path: /Users/mtm/Documents/Obsidian Vault

Basic usage

# find files where tags include "python"
islandiguana "/Users/mtm/Documents/Obsidian Vault" '.tags[] == "python"'

# find files where status is draft
islandiguana "/Users/mtm/Documents/Obsidian Vault" '.status == "draft"'

# find files that have a specific front matter key (any value)
islandiguana "/Users/mtm/Documents/Obsidian Vault" 'has("filetype")'