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#!/bin/bash
# better grep if you use svn

# Copyright 2004 Ben Reser <ben@reser.org>
# Licensed under the terms subversion ships under or GPLv2.

# Useful for greping in a subversion working copy.  
# Essentially it behaves the same way your grep command does (in fact it
# ultimately calls the grep command on your path) with a few exceptions.
# Ignores the subversion admin directories (.svn) and vi(m) backup files.
# Recursive is always on with or without -r.
# Always print filename and line numbers.
# Ignores binary files.
# If no path is given the current working directory is searched not stdin.
# Other than that it will take any parameter or pattern your standard grep
# does.
# 
# This script requires GNU findutils and by default GNU grep (though that
# can be changed with environment variables).
# 
# There are three environment variables you can set that modify the default
# behavior:
#
# WCGREP_GREP      Controls what command is used for the grep command.
#                  If unset or null wcgrep will use the command named grep.
# WCGREP_GREPARGS  Controls what arguments are always passed to the grep
#                  command before the arguments given on the command line.
#                  If unset or null it defaults to -HnI (always print file
#                  names, line numbers and ignore binary files).  If you wish
#                  to set no default args set the variable to a space (" ").
# WCGREP_IGNORE    Controls what files are ignored by the grep command.
#                  This is a regex that is passed to the find command with
#                  -regex so see find's man page for details.  If unset or
#                  null defaults to '.*~$\|.*/\.svn\(/\|$\)', which will
#                  ignore vim backup files and subversion admin dirs.


arg_count=$#
for (( i=1; i <= $arg_count; i++ )); do
    arg="$1"
    shift 1
    if [ -z "$pattern" ]; then
        if [ "$arg" == "--" ]; then
            grepargs="$grepargs $arg"
            pattern="$1"
            shift 1
            ((i++))
        elif [ "${arg:0:1}" != "-" ]; then
            pattern="$arg"
        else
            grepargs="$grepargs $arg"
        fi  
    else
        pathargs="$pathargs $arg"
    fi
done

find $pathargs -regex ${WCGREP_IGNORE:-'.*~$\|.*/\.svn\(/\|$\)'} -prune -o \
    -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 ${WCGREP_GREP:-grep} ${WCGREP_GREPARGS:--HnI} \
    $grepargs "$pattern"