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 [l]ist the filenames:
ag -l foo
- Find files containing "FOO" case-[i]nsensitively, and print [o]nly 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