Multiple keyword search in multiple directories bash script

I guess the title is good enough :)
Probably you can do it in single grep command too.. but this way you will play with bash as well..

here is the bash script doing it


 #! /bin/bash
 dirs=(dir1 dir2 dir3 dir4 dir5)
 keywords=(keyword1 keyword2 keyword3 keyword4 keyword5)
 strs=""
 for word in "${keywords[@]}"; do
     strs+=" -e ${word} "
 done
 
 for path in "${dirs[@]}"; do
     dirname="$(basename "${path}")"
     grep -ir --color ${strs} ${path}
 done

Save this as finder.sh

and you can run it as bash finder.sh

See more on bash here

[: too many arguments error in bash script

You are writing shell script and got too many arguments error

While writing bash script, if you got this error, check where you are making expression test like in

if [ $somevar = "value"]; then
..

if the $somevar is something you are getting it from another command [ say grep or ls] which happen to return a lot of results that are separated by space or something you end up having it being

if [file1 file 2 file 3 = "value"]; then

The easiest solution for this is to enclose the variable in double quote like

if [ -n  "$somevar"]; then
some more commands goes here

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