Re: RFE: "-mtype" + -menc

[Assaf Gordon]

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