Norrin

A bash script to find a list of strings in a directory of source code.

This bash script is sugar / wrapper around The Silver Searcher

Requirements

• bash 4.3 +
• bc, an arbitrary precision calculator language
• The Silver Searcher

Quick Start

# give the script permisson to run
chmod +x norrin
# search by supplying a dictionary and the directory to search
./norrin /path/to/dict.txt /path/to/search
# Results will be saved to the current directory.

Releases

• 0.0.2 - cleaned up and renamed file, moved date to it variable. added comments and cleaned up variable names.
• 0.0.1 - Inital release, proof of concept

Use Cases

Norrin helps by searching directories of source code for user-supplied dictionary text files in parallel, I.E. automated grepping directories.

Testing

• Ubuntu 16.04: No Bugs / Working
• Ubuntu 14.04: No Bugs / Working