Here’s a script that I wrote to help me find things at work.
#!/bin/bash
if [ ! -n "$1" ]
then
echo "Usage: `basename $0` pattern [optional args to grep]"
echo "e.g. grepit findme -i"
echo
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -n "$2" ]
then
grep -r --exclude='*.log' "$1" * | grep -v '/\.svn/'
else
grep -r "$2" --exclude='*.log' "$1" * | grep -v '/\.svn/'
fi
Basically I just got tired of always specifying the recursive option to grep and having to exclude svn and log files (because they were redundant or took too long to search). I also found that sometimes I wanted to add additional arguments (like -i for ignoring case or -n for line numbers). So now when I change a function in one file and want to find every place that function was used I simply do a
grepit function_name
P.S. Let me know if you know a good way to strip leading whitespace from the results.
Tags: grep, Linux
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