personal wiki with bash & zsh, searches a directory with .txt files. includes command for new note

wiki.sh

wiki() {
    # Combine arguments into a single string for multi-word search
    search_string="$*"
    
    # Perform case-insensitive grep search with the combined string
    grep -Hni --color=always "$search_string" /Users/dome/work/wikifiles/*.txt | awk -F':' '
    BEGIN {
        prevfile=""
    }
    {
        if ($1 != prevfile) {
            print "\033[1;34m==============================\033[0m"   # Blue separator line
            print "\033[1;36m📄 File: \033[0m" $1                      # File name in cyan
        }
        # Ensure only the first two fields (filename and line number) are split by colon
        print "   \033[1;33m➜ Line "$2":\033[0m " substr($0, index($0,$3))  # Print line content starting from $3 to avoid cutting URLs
        prevfile=$1
    }'
}

note() {
  # Get the current date and time in the format YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS
  local timestamp=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S")
  
  # Define the directory where the note should be created
  local directory="/Users/dome/work/wikifiles"
  
  # Define the note filename with the timestamp and full path
  local filepath="${directory}/${timestamp}.txt"
  
  # Create the new file and open it with micro editor
  touch "$filepath" && micro "$filepath"
}
# usage & example results
(base) ➜  ~ note # opens micro editor for new note, can be replaced with vim or nano

(base) ➜  ~ wiki pandoc # search results
==============================
📄 File: /Users/dome/work/wikifiles/Pandoc HTML to markdown.txt
   ➜ Line 1: pandoc input.html -t gfm -o output.md
==============================
📄 File: /Users/dome/work/wikifiles/Pandoc Word to Markdown.txt
   ➜ Line 1:  pandoc -s hll.docx --reference-links -t markdown -o hll.md
==============================
📄 File: /Users/dome/work/wikifiles/markdown regex replace.txt
   ➜ Line 19: 1. mit pandoc zu md
   ➜ Line 24: siehe auch pandoc wiki file

For zsh shell. Add the function to ~/.zshrc and update the shell with source ~/.zshrc.

Results are nicely formatted with colors and clickable with the mouse when pressing CTRL