Bash-search project

Grep-based recursive search with better-looking output

Supported systems

• Linux, Solaris

Features

• options

  • -i case insensitive
  • -v invert match

• queries

  • regular expressions
  • OR (syntax: query1 [or] query2)

Usage

• chmod 777 search.sh
• ./search.sh [-i] [-v] PATH QUERY

Example input

./search.sh  workspace   hello.*rld[or]goodbye
./search.sh  /tmp/  ".*2018.log"
./search.sh  -iv  ..  abcd [or] defg

Example output

../workspace/export/.project
      10:  <arguments>
      15:  <arguments>
../workspace/export/build.xml
      52:  <arg value="install" />
../workspace/export/renderer/build.xml
      2:   <attribute name="Author" value="${author.name}" />
      24:  <attribute name="Built-By" value="${user.name}" />
      27:  <attribute name="Implementation-Version" value="1.0" />
      
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