shellnotes/util/notegrep.sh

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alias grep='grep --color=always'

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Here, the color parameter is specified in a grep-specific environment variable.
Then, you don't have to enter it in the command line again.
The "always" option is selected in order to colorize the output of the "grep"
command every time it is called, even if the output is piped to a command, or 
redirected to a file.

Also works with: 
export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto' 

DO NOT pipe notegrep with less.

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export GREP_COLORS='ms=01;33'


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Now, change the highlight color of grep by using an environment variable, GREP_COLORS.
An empty string or 0 resets all text styling and resets both colors to the defaults but
does not reset the font to the default. Some options/examples are:

┏━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
┃ ### ┃ GNOME Terminal          ┃ xterm                   ┃ non-GUI TTY           ┃
┡━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
│     │ «reset style+colors»    │ «reset style+colors»    │ «reset style+colors»  │
│   0 │ «reset style+colors»    │ «reset style+colors»    │ «reset style+colors»  │
├─────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
│   1 │ +bold, +brighter color  │ +bold, +brighter color  │ +brighter color,      │
│     │                         │                         │   -forced grey        │
│   2 │ +fainter color          │ +fainter color          │ +forced grey          │
│   3 │ +italic                 │ +italic                 │ +forced green         │
│     │                         │                         │   ● overrides 2 and 4 │
│   4 │ +underline              │ +underline              │ +forced cyan          │
│     │                         │                         │   ● overrides 2       │
│   5 │ «no effect»             │ +blink                  │ «no effect»           │
│   7 │ +invert colors          │ +invert colors          │ +invert colors        │
│   8 │ +invisible              │ +invisible              │ «no effect»           │
│     │                         │   ● underline appears   │                       │
│   9 │ +strikethrough          │ +strikethrough          │ «no effect»           │
├────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━                            Source: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1042234/modifying-the-color-of-grep
│  21 │ -bold, -brighter color, │ +double underline       │ -brighter color,      │
│     │   -fainter color        ├     -forced grey        │                       │
│  22 │ -bold, -brighter color, │ -bold, -brighter color, │ -brighter color,      │
│     │   -fainter color        │   -fainter color        │   -forced grey        │
│  23 │ -italic                 │ -italic                 │ -forced green         │
│  24 │ -underline              │ -underline,             │ -forced cyan          │
│     │                         │   -double underline     │                       │
│  25 │ «no effect»             │ -blink                  │ «no effect»           │
│  27 │ -invert colors          │ -invert colors          │ -invert colors        │
│  28 │ -invisible              │ -invisible              │ «no effect»           │
│  29 │ -strikethrough          │ -strikethrough          │ «no effect»           │
└─────┴─────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┴──────━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

In this example, the matching regex is going to be displayed as bold yellow (in most terminals).

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export LESSCHARSET=utf-8


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Do the above for utf-8 support. 

It should also work with:

LANG=
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

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function notegrep() {
    if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
        echo -n "Enter regex: " && read regex
		echo -n "Enter note name: " && read notename
	else
		notename=$2
        regex=$1
	fi

	if [ -z $notename ]; then
		echo "Invalid input."
		return 0

    elif [ -z $regex ]; then
        echo "No pattern given."
        return 0
    fi

    if [ -e ${DEFAULT_PATH}/${notename} ]; then
        cd $DEFAULT_PATH
        out="$(grep $regex $notename | wc -l)"
        
        if [ $out -gt 20 ]; then
            grep -i $regex $notename | less
        elif [ $out -le 20 ]; then
            grep -i $regex $notename
        else
            return 0
        fi

    else
        echo "This note doesn't exist in $DEFAULT_PATH."
    fi

 unset GREP_OPTIONS
 cd $DIR
 return 0
}