Here's a little something I whipped up…fits a little better with OS X toolbar.

http://www.dustinschau.com/Downloads/TextMate.png

DIR=/tmp
EXT=.php
mate "$DIR/"*"$EXT"

That will open all files with extension EXT (.php) in the DIR folder (/tmp). And both DIR and EXT can contain spaces.

open "file://path/to/$TM_SELECTED_TEXT.pdf" open "file://path/to/$TM_SELECTED_TEXT%20No%20PDF"

What I want is to open any and all files in this directory that starts with $TM_SELECTED_TEXT.

And there are spaces in the filename but not the path.

Any help is appreciated! Thanks Darryl

find . -name "$i" -exec grep -sq "$GREP" '{}' \; -print0 | xargs -0 mate

I also suggest this addition to the script:

echo -n "$GREP"|pbcopy -pboard find

Then when the file(s) open, one can use ⌘E to jump to the match :)

find . -name "$i" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -lZ "$GREP" | xargs -0 mate

I think that would work, but wasn't really sure there might not be some wonky edge cases.

And for naming it xcgrep, I need to put the following on all my servers to avoid having my sessions littered with command not found :)

alias mate='nano -w'

the first: tm

#/bin/bash
# tm <pattern>...
# Open all files under this location with the
# given (wildcarded) name(s).
# eg: tm \*Servlet.java

for i; do
    if [ -f "$i" ] ; then
        mate "$i"
    else
        find . -path './{arch}' -prune -o -name "$i" -print | xargs mate
    fi
done

And the second: tmgrep

#/bin/bash
# tmgrep <text> <pattern>...
# Open all files matching the given pattern(s)
# under this location that contain
# the given text.
# eg: tmgrep "extends SomeClass" \*.java

for i; do
    if [ -z "$GREP" ] ; then
GREP="$i"
else
    find . -path './{arch}' -prune -o -name "$i" -print | xargs grep -l "$GREP" | xargs mate
fi
done

You can call them what you like; On my system I still call them xcode and xcgrep because the original of these scripts opened files in XCode rather than TextMate and that's what my fingers are used to typing now. (I also have a variant that opens in gedit under Linux, also called xcode and xcgrep.) But textmate is way nicer for doing this stuff especially as, when you use the above and it matches a bunch of windows, they all turn up in a sidebar in one new window, rather than covering your desktop in windows… which can get especially tiresome when you accidentally tell it to open a couple of thousand files…

Obvious and probably easy enhancements might include:

• allow regexp expressions (optionally) in tmgrep. I didn't especially miss it myself as regexp has never quite become second-nature.
• be more generic in what application it uses to open the files. On OS X of course, you could actually just replace mate with open as long as you've already configured the system to open the files in the right application. The grepping variant obviously is unlikely to be very useful on anything other than text files.
• cope with folders and filenames with spaces in them. I think I know how, I just haven't needed it enough to make it happen and get it all tested.

The -path './{arch}' -prune bit is just because we use bazaar for our source control and I don't want this command picking up the files of the same name inside its working directories. You can lose it if you want; I've left it in as an example.