So if you’re a Linux user that’s ever used Solaris, you know that a lot of the
commands don’t translate exactly the same. One such issue is the lack of a
recursive flag (-R) on the grep command. Not a problem though, bash is a
powerful thing. Here’s my solution to the problem:
#!/bin/bash
# Simulates the Linux grep with the recursive flag -R Originally built to
# keep my sanity on older Sun Solaris installs.
#
# @author Josh Sherman
# @link http://joshtronic.com
if [ -z "$1" ] then
echo "Usage: grepr.sh pattern path"
exit
fi
if [ -z "$2" ] then
SEARCH_PATH="."
else
SEARCH_PATH="$2"
fi
for i in `find $SEARCH_PATH` do
RESULTS=$(grep "$1" $i)
if [ "$RESULTS" ] then
echo
echo "$i:"
echo "$RESULTS"
fi
done
