Hello, On 2019-04-16 8:13 p.m., L A Walsh wrote: [...]
Very often I want to search for something but only in my shell or perl scripts and likely within the past 'X' months, stringing everything together in a pipeline is certainly possible but awkward when what I really want to do is search for a string or function name in all shell scripts:
There are existing tools that do so very well, for example 'ack' (https://beyondgrep.com/): ack --shell --perl 'foo|bar' To limit searches by file attributes, combine with find/xargs: find -type f -mtime -60 -print0 \ | xargs -0 ack --shell --perl 'foo|bar' Or, if you wanted to list files based file-type (which can be later combined with 'xargs -0'): ack --shell --perl -f --print0 -assaf
