From: Michael Greenly <mgreenly@...>
Date: 2006-05-03T21:27:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Searching Files

Nathan Olberding wrote:
> I'm trying to write a simple script to go through all the files in a 
> specific directory and search for search terms. You should, 
> hypothetically, be able to run:
> 
> search search_term
>


#
# drop this in a file and run it... it should be fairly easy to adapt 
this
# to what you want
#
require 'find'

search_term = /pear/

Find.find("./") do |path|
  next unless File.file?(path)
  File.open(path) do |file|
    lineno = 0
    file.each do |line|
      lineno += 1
      if line =~ search_term
        puts "#{path}:#{lineno} " + line
      end
    end
  end
end

__END__
pear
apple
orange
banana
kiwi
mango

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