fn

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# this little script, does a grep on all the files in the NOTES_DIRECTORY
# and finds all files that have that regexp in them.
#
# this is so, you can quickly find what file something might be in, so you can
# edit it. Like using notes -3 to get to the file that you need to edit.

if [ -z $1 ]; then
  usage: fn regexp
  exit 0
fi

file=$(mktemp)

grep -ni "${1}" $NOTES_DIRECTORY/* > $file
# | awk -F':' '{idx = split($1, fparts, "/"); print fparts[idx, ":", $2, ":", $3, $4, $5, $6, $7 }'
while read -r line; do
  fn=$(echo $line | awk -F':' '{idx = split($1, fparts, "/"); printf "%-s: %5.5d\n", fparts[idx], $2}')
  text=$(echo $line | awk -F':' 'BEGIN {OFS=":"} {$1=""; $2=""; print}')

  if [ "${#text}" -gt 70 ]; then suffix='...'; else suffix=' '; fi
  
  echo $fn ":" ${text:2:70} $suffix
done < $file

rm $file