Trying to learn a little of bash scripting and I end up using the 'grep --color -r -n -i SEARCH .' command a lot, so I figured I'd script that. Problem is that I can't seem to pass my search term to grep correctly.
I've managed to get it to work when I pass only a single term in, so that if I enter 'search qwerty' it will perform 'grep --color -r -n -i qwerty .', but I can't get it to work if I pass in multiple terms. I would do this normally using 'grep --color -r -n -i 'qwe rty' .', however when I try this it searches for ''qwe' in rty'.
I'm not sure if I'm explaining this will so I'll post the relevant parts of the script xD
SEARCH="$*"
grep --color -r -n -i ${SEARCH} $PWD
I've tried this with SEARCH="'$*'" (which stops it working at all) and grep --color -r -n -i \'${SEARCH}\' $PWD which searches for 'qwe in rty', which is obviously not what I'm looking for.
Hope any of this makes sense ^.^
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