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vgrep — A user friendly pager for grep. See also: `ugrep`, `rg`. More information: <https://github.com/vroth

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Problem

How to use the vgrep command: A user friendly pager for grep. See also: ugrep, rg. More information: <https://github.com/vrothberg/vgrep/blob/main/docs/vgrep.1.md>.

Solution

vgrep — A user friendly pager for grep. See also: ugrep, rg. More information: <https://github.com/vrothberg/vgrep/blob/main/docs/vgrep.1.md>.

Recursively search the current directory for a pattern and cache it:

vgrep {{search_pattern}}

Display the contents of the cache:

vgrep

Open the "4th" match from the cache in the default editor:

vgrep {{[-s|--show]}} {{4}}

Display a context of "3" lines for each match in the cache:

vgrep {{[-s|--show]}} {{[c|context]}}{{3}}

Display the number of matches for each directory in the tree:

vgrep {{[-s|--show]}} {{[t|tree]}}

Display the number of matches for each file in the tree:

vgrep {{[-s|--show]}} {{[f|files]}}

Start an interactive shell with cached matches:

vgrep {{[-i|--interactive]}}

Code Snippets

Recursively search the current directory for a pattern and cache it

vgrep {{search_pattern}}

Display the contents of the cache

vgrep

Open the "4th" match from the cache in the default editor

vgrep {{[-s|--show]}} {{4}}

Display a context of "3" lines for each match in the cache

vgrep {{[-s|--show]}} {{[c|context]}}{{3}}

Display the number of matches for each directory in the tree

vgrep {{[-s|--show]}} {{[t|tree]}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/vgrep

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