ag
The Silver Searcher. Like ack, but aims to be faster. More information: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher.
- Find files containing "foo", and print the line matches in context:
ag {{foo}}
- Find files containing "foo" in a specific directory:
ag {{foo}} {{path/to/directory}}
- Find files containing "foo", but only list the filenames:
ag -l {{foo}}
- Find files containing "FOO" case-insensitively, and print only the match, rather than the whole line:
ag -i -o {{FOO}}
- Find "foo" in files with a name matching "bar":
ag {{foo}} -G {{bar}}
- Find files whose contents match a regular expression:
ag '{{^ba(r|z)$}}'
- Find files with a name matching "foo":
ag -g {{foo}}
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