Easy find
I found myself typing find . -name "*.java" | xargs -iHn "something" so often I decided to make it into a bash script and put it in a new ~/Dropbox/bin folder so that I never have to do it again. Worse I never use the print0 option which let's you search files that have spaces in the filename, as it's too hard to remember. So, here's the script.
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # A simple script to recursively search files | |
| if [ "$#" -ne 3 ]; then | |
| echo "efind (easy find) usage: [path] [file pattern] [regex]" | |
| echo 'efind ../c "*.c" "string"' | |
| exit 1 | |
| fi | |
| find "$1" -name "$2" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 egrep -iHn "$3" | |