jack

#!/bin/bash
#
# > jack (James's ack) <
#
# Sugar on top of ack for finding text within multiple documents modified within a certain interval
#
# parisminton@da.ydrea.ms
#
# vrs="v 0.1"
# last_change="6/18/15"

OLD_IFS=$IFS
IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b") # new separator is newline followed by backspace...
scope=$PWD
dur="-7d"
term=$1
find_stuff=false

for arg in $*; do 
  if [[ $arg == $1 ]]; then #skip the search term
    continue
  fi
  if [[ $arg =~ -[0-9][0-9]*[smhdw]$ ]]; then
    find_stuff=true
    dur=$arg
    continue
  fi
  if [[ -d $arg ]]; then
    find_stuff=true
    scope=$arg
    continue
  fi
  if [[ -f $arg ]]; then
    scope=$arg
    continue
  fi
done 

if [[ $find_stuff == true ]]; then
  find $scope/* -mtime $dur -exec ack -H $term {} \;
  exit 0
else
  ack $term $scope
  exit 0
fi
IFS=$OLD_IFS