poor-mans-ripgrep.sh - ripgrep for those stuck with grep

poor-mans-ripgrep.sh

# All my gist code is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.

# poor-man's ripgrep
# - like grep, but ignore hidden files and folders (prefixed with a dot) and
#   node_modules.
# - because grep's --exclude-dir only matches top-level directories, we need to
#   use find
# - last argument is starting point. It must be provided, otherwise it's tricky
#   to distinguish it from the pattern
# - any previous arguments are passed to grep before the matching files,
#   assuming they are patterns and options
function poor-mans-ripgrep () {
  if [[ "$#" -lt 2 ]]; then
    echo "usage: poor-mans-ripgrep [grep options] pattern starting_point"
    return 1
  fi

  local starting_point="${@: -1}"
  find "$starting_point" \
    -not -path '*/\.*' \
    -not -path '*/node_modules/*' \
    -type f \
    -exec grep -E --color=auto --binary-files=without-match "${@:1:$#-1}" '{}' +
}