supersearch

The purpose of this script is to make it easy to search every file in a directory for a given string (case insensitive). I use grep -rnwi multiple times a day, almost every day, so this simplifies it so I can run that with a single command.

Parameters

This script supports two parameters: A directory, and a search string. If no directory is specified, it will use the current directory.

Example Command

The following command will search every file in the current directory and all subdirectories for the text endpoint.

supersearch . "endpoint"

Example Output

Found in (./main.py)
Line 20: def get_status_code(endpoint)

Found in (./main.py)
Line 21:        url = base_url + endpoint

Found in (./main.py)
Line 25: def get_all(endpoint, is_active=None, updated_since=None)

Found in (./main.py)
Line 26:        url = base_url + endpoint

Found in (./main.py)
Line 40: def delete_by_id(endpoint, id)

Installation

1. Execute git clone https://github.com/somnolentPumpkin/supersearch.git.
2. Execute cd supersearch.
3. Execute sudo chmod +x supersearch.
4. Execute ./supersearch <DIRECTORY> <TEXT>

Optionally, if you want to be able to run the script from anywhere, you can put the supersearch script in your /bin folder. To do that, execute sudo mv supersearch /bin/supersearch on Linux, or sudo mv supersearch /usr/local/bin/supersearch on OS X.