find-notes

#!/bin/sh
#
#  We use Apple's Spotlight System (via mdfind) to do the initial
#  search for particluar files. We then get some context for the
#  results by calling grep. The result should work well with Emacs.

INITIAL_LOCATIONS="$HOME/technical $HOME/Notes $HOME/journal $HOME/Dropbox/org
$HOME/personal $HOME/Other/dot-files $HOME/Work/dot-files"

# I run this script on many different machines, which may or may not
# have all of the directories listed above, so let's make sure they
# exist first.

LOCATIONS=""
for DIR in $INITIAL_LOCATIONS
do
    if [ -d $DIR ]
    then
        LOCATIONS="$LOCATIONS -onlyin $DIR"
    fi
done

# While mdfind will put the text in any order, grep requires the
# regular expression to be separated by vertical bars:

REGEXP=$(echo "$*" | sed 's/ /\\|/g')
TRIM=$(echo "$HOME" | wc -m)

if [ -e /etc/redhat-release -o -e /etc/lsb-release -o -e /etc/os-release ]
then
    CALL="recoll -t -a -b"
else
    CALL="mdfind $LOCATIONS -interpret"
fi

$CALL $* | sed 's/^file:\/\///' | while read FILE
do
    if echo $FILE | grep -v -q '#'
    then
        LOC=$(grep -ni -m 1 "$REGEXP" "$FILE" | cut -d: -f1)
        NAME=$(echo $FILE | cut -c$TRIM-)
        TITLE=$(head -n 1 "$FILE" | sed 's/#+TITLE: //')
        echo "~$NAME:$LOC: $TITLE"
        grep -C 1 -i -m 3 "$REGEXP" "$FILE"
        echo
    fi
done

echo "----eot-----"