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Multiple on-demand grep searches can be tedious, this short script allows user inputs to substitute grep search commands for a specific file.
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grepWrapper.sh
input=''
if [ "$1" = '' ]; then
input='quit'
echo "Please provide file to search as 'grepWrapper.sh <fileToSearch>'"
fi
while [ "${input}" != 'quit' ]; do
echo "Please provide search sequence, or 'quit':"
read input
grep ${input} $1
echo ''
done
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mattravenhall commented Dec 29, 2017 •
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The key take-home here is the 'read' command, this principal can be applied to any number of commands. Call as: grepWrapper.sh

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