Re: format grep ouput

[William Pursell <bill.pursell@gmail.com>]

BartlebyScrivener wrote:
> 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.

The following works with filenames with spaces.  It
displays the filename after the text match, though.

find . -type f -name "*$1" -exec sh -c "grep --color -i $2 '{}' && \
        echo '**** echo {}' && echo" \;