code – GrandadEvans

So why do I need to work this morning?

I love my job. Unfortunately I haven’t had much work in lately. I had to take quite a bit of time off in the run up to my operation as it got to the point where I couldn’t guarantee that I would be able to work x amount of hours. This meant that I had plenty of time to work on my skills and am now a much better coder because of it. It also means that I effectively had to start freelance again as the limited client base that I did have now have nothing for me as yet.

My job gives me a great deal of satisfaction and the project that I am doing gives me a great sense of pride; and so I continue plodding along with my cup of tea in front of me; my classical music playing to keep my mood level whilst I write about subjects that normally affect me emotionally.

If I don’t work this morning I will sit back and dwell on Sgt. William’s post. Instead. I shall be working and enjoying myself knee deep in the wonderful life of web development.

Right…that’s it for now. Everybody get back to work and stop using me as an excuse 😉
If you did manage to get this far though; well done and thank you 🙂

Well tonight I was supposed to be pulling the new project to bits that I’m working on but I ran into a problem – let me explain.

Every time I have wanted to find some text in a directory I’ve had to either search the internet or my bash history for the right command. With this in mind I thought I may as well take a little time to create a function that would just search for the string that I want. After all while I’m learning the layout etc of this project I’m going to need it. Not knowing where all the files are as yet and what they all do it’s going to be a lot easier to run the function and see what files the string turns up in.

The function to put in your ~/.bashrc or similar file

function find-string() {


    # re-iterate what we're looking for

    echo 'looking for "'$1'"'
    # perform a search on all files

    find ./ -xdev -type f -print0 | \
    # process each file through the grep,

    #    --colour=always    = always show the coloured version

    #    --ignore-case      = search is not case-sesitive

    #    --line-number      = show the line numbers after the filename

    #    --context=1        = this will print 1 line both above and below the line where the string occurs

    #    "${1}"             = finally search for the passed variable

    xargs -0 grep --colour=always --ignore-case --line-number --context=1 "${1}" | \
    # replace each tab with 2 spaces to cut down on the amount of indentation in

    # the search results from files with large areas of indentation

    sed -re 's/\t/  /g'

}

And to get it up and running just run

source ~/.bashrc
to enable your system to see the function and then when you want to use it you can simply enter something like:
find-string viewer-thumbnails-wrapper
find-string being the function and in this case we are searching for file containing viewer-thumbnails-wrapper which will bring results like these:
Looking for "viewer-thumbnails-wrapper" ./css/viewer.css-418-/* Thumbnails */ ./css/viewer.css:419:.viewer-thumbnails-wrapper{ ./css/viewer.css-420- background: #FFF; -- ./js/mediagallery.js-61- min_thumbs: 5, ./js/mediagallery.js:62: thumbwrapper: 'div.viewer-thumbnails-wrapper', ./js/mediagallery.js-63- btn_thumbs_show: 'a.viewer-thumbs',

Ok, that’s it, if you can make use of the this function then go ahead and copy and paste.”
Enjoy!

if there’s any help I can offer then let me know in the comments section below.

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So why do I need to work this morning?

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