I use Visual Studio Code to do the search in the current project. But often times i would want to search other projects in my workspace directory.
So usually the command i would use might look like this:
<pre><code class="lang-sh">grep -R --include \*.js --exclude-dir={dist,node_modules} 'OAuth2Client' .
</code></pre>
This will search all the files with <code>js</code> extension excluding <code>dist</code> and <code>node_modules</code> directories under current directory.
To save me time from typing this cumbersome command multiple times, I have created the following bash function:
<pre><code class="lang-sh">search() {
 DEFAULT_EXT="js"
 FILETYPE="${2:-$DEFAULT_EXT}"
 grep -R --include \*.${FILETYPE} --exclude-dir={dist,node_modules} $1 .
}
</code></pre>
So, to search within <code>json</code> files you can just do:
<pre><code class="lang-sh">search allowSyntheticDefaultImports json
</code></pre>
<blockquote>
./server/tsconfig.json: "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true,
</blockquote>
Also, to search within <code>js</code> files you can do:
<pre><code class="lang-sh">search OAuth2Client
</code></pre>
<blockquote>
./server/src/middlewares/<a href="google-auth.js:search" class="autolinkedURL autolinkedURL-url" target="_blank">google-auth.js:search</a> OAuth2Client
</blockquote>

I use Visual Studio Code to do the search in the current project. But often times i would want to search other projects in my workspace directory.

So usually the command i would use might look like this:

```sh
grep -R --include \*.js --exclude-dir={dist,node_modules} 'OAuth2Client' .
```

This will search all the files with `js` extension excluding `dist` and `node_modules` directories under current directory.

To save me time from typing this cumbersome command multiple times, I have created the following bash function:

```sh
search() {
  DEFAULT_EXT="js"
  FILETYPE="${2:-$DEFAULT_EXT}"
  grep -R --include \*.${FILETYPE} --exclude-dir={dist,node_modules} $1 .
}
```

So, to search within `json` files you can just do:

```sh
search allowSyntheticDefaultImports json
```

 > ./server/tsconfig.json:    "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true,

Also, to search within `js` files you can do:

```sh
search OAuth2Client
```

> ./server/src/middlewares/google-auth.js:search OAuth2Client

Creating a bash function for searching in files