These two scripts are two different find commands. The first (grok) will list all files in a directory recursively that contain a matched string; the second will locate a file/folder and the change to it’s directory. Neither of these are mine (though slightly edited), I’ve gotten them from the Arch forums where they have a great thread called Post your handy self made command line utilities.
Grok
This one is by rebugger and I call it grok. Syntax is:
grok <string> <*location>
If no location is given it uses the current directory.
aspire ~: grok 127.0.0.1 /etc/ Searching... /etc/dnsmasq.conf /etc/dnsmasq.conf.pacorig /etc/hosts /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/localhost-prepend /etc/ntp.conf /etc/resolv.conf /etc/security/access.conf /etc/xinetd.d/servers /etc/xinetd.d/services
cdl
This one is by segoe that uses locate to find a file and that cd’s to the first match found.
aspire ~/.scripts: cdl demo/PKG aspire ~/.arch/pkgbuilds/amnesia-demo:
This one put in your ~/.bashrc:
cdf () { cd "$(dirname "$(locate -i "$*" | head -n 1)")" ; } # locate then cd
grok can be simplified to:
grep -Ilr “$1″ “$2″
no need to call grep over and over again via find
Thanks for the tip. Yeah, hadn’t thought of that, I’ll have to try it. Going to bed now though. :D
Nice job, Hollow. Definitely a much better way of doing this. Updated the blog.