Show HN: Xsearch –a bash command line tool to search for a keyword in a folder

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Why not... grep -R -n ... and it's other options...?

Why rewrite as a 100+ lines of bash with multiple program invocations?

yeah, it is indeed! i just been thinkering about it, and i just got an idea to try another way to do it, and maybe package for people who aren't familiar with shell commands.

Someone unfamiliar with shell commands will likely have just as much difficulty finding, installing, and using your script/package.

i did include an install.sh, so you just have to run that. what do you suggest to do to make it more simpler and easy?

You made a shell script because people unfamiliar with shell scripts might need to find files using the shell?

An alias like alias xsearch="grep -rnw -e" would probably replace what you just built and I hope anyone able to install your script could at least figure out how to edit and source their .bashrc file.

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