Re: format grep ouput

[BartlebyScrivener <bscrivener42@gmail.com>]

On Jul 15, 4:20 pm, Jeff D <fixedo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> probably the easiest thing to do is write up a little wrapper for grep
> like so:
> #!/bin/sh
> if [ -z $1 ] ; then
>          echo "please enter file type"
>          exit 1
>          fi
>
> if [ -z $2 ] ; then
>          echo "please enter search pattern"
>          exit 1
>          fi
>
> for FILE in `find . -type f -name "*$1" -exec  grep -il $2 {} \; ` ; do
>
> echo " " ; echo "**" ; echo $FILE
>
> grep --color -i $2 $FILE
>

Wow. That's a whole education in bash scripting.  I think it will
work. It chokes on directories with spaces in them, but that's because
I haven't renamed all the dirs I copied over from Windows yet. I will.

Thank you.

rd