Bash alias query

Question

How can I turn the following command into a bash alias?

find . -name '*.php' | xargs grep --color -n 'search term'

Where I can specify the file extension and 'search term' is obviously the search term :)

So what I want to do is:

 searchFiles 'php' 'search term'

How do I pass the input into the alias? Should I just create a bash script and have the alias point to the script?

Answer 1

How about using a function? Add this to your .bashrc:

function searchFiles() {
       find . -name \*."$1" -print0 | xargs -0 grep --color -n "$2"
}

and then use it like:

$ searchFiles c include