My Linux Shell Scripts

This is a small collection of Linux shell scripts. Here's a brief description of them:

ff - stands for "file find". it's like find+grep, but uses a collection of tools to create an output that i like, showing the filename that was matched, the line number that matched, and the text from the line that matched. if you use find+grep a lot, or perhaps grep -r, you might like this script.
explore - prints lines before and after a regex match in a file. for instance, if a grep search matches line 50 in a file, and you specify that you want explore to show 10 lines around that match, explore will print lines 40 through 60.
glimpse - this is an interactive shell script that combines ff and explore into one tool. when you first run it, it works like ff, as a find/grep tool. after it has found some matches it then works like explore, letting you poke around the files that were matched.

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