Notes

Notes is a simple wrapper for awk. It searches for all txt files in a specific path recursively for a specific pattern. All found entries will be printed in the console. Each file can have multiple "entries" separated by --- (or anything you specify in the script file.

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Installation

• edit the path where your txt files are, for example I use it with dropbox: NOTES_DIR="~/Dropbox/mynotes"
• make the script executable: chmod +x notes.js
• Add the full path to this script in ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc like this: . /home/michael/scripts/notes/notes.sh
• Reload your rc file with source ~/.bashrc (or .zshrc)

Search

To search for things you type the following:

notes blabla

Example txt file:

Extract bz2
bzip2 -d filename.bz2
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Extract tar
tar -xvf file.tar
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Extract tar.bz2
tar -xjvf file.tar.bz2

Now when you want to know how to extract a tar file, you search it like this: notes extract bz2 or just notes bz2 The output looks like this:

########### ./linux/extract.txt
Extract BZ2
bzip2 -d filename.bz2

The first line is always the filename and the rest is the found entry.

01.11.2017 by MilMike. Still work in progress. Feel free to request features or just fork it and make your own "terminal search engine"