Recursively search for text in R scripts.
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Often I find myself needing to search for .R or or .Rmd files in which I have used a specific function. There are a variety of searches that you can do; however, I wanted something that would work recursively at the command line of a Linux or Mac terminal. I found the answer here and have modified it a bit so that it works as a function in Bash (in this example I search through .R and . Rmd files).Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.
Add the following to your ~/.bash_aliases file and then source ~/.bashrc:
findinRfun() {
if [ -z "$1" ]
then
echo "No argument supplied"
else
#search text is passed as argument $1
find . -type f \( -name "*.R" -o -name "*.Rmd" -o -name "*.r" -o -name "*.rmd" \) -print0 | xargs --null grep --with-filename --line-number --no-messages --color --ignore-case "$1"
fi
}
alias findinR=findinRfun
Now, at the command line, you can search through all the files below the current location that contain your search text.
findinR mysearchtext
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