Searches for a string in all files of a directory. Useful wrapper for grep.

findstring

#!/bin/bash

usage="Usage: findstring <string> [directory]"

if [ $# -lt 1 ] || [ $# -gt 2 ]; then
	echo $usage
	exit 0
fi

if [ $# -eq 1 ]; then
	dir=`pwd`
else
	dir=$2
fi

echo "Searching for \"$1\" in $dir"

grep --recursive --color=auto --with-filename --line-number \
     --binary-files=without-match "$1" $dir