vgrep
A user friendly pager for grep. See also:ugrep
,rg
. More information: https://github.com/vrothberg/vgrep.
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Recursively search the current directory for a pattern and cache it:
vgrep {{search_pattern}}
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Display the contents of the cache:
vgrep
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Open the "4th" match from the cache in the default editor:
vgrep --show {{4}}
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Display a context of "3" lines for each match in the cache:
vgrep --show=context{{3}}
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Display the number of matches for each directory in the tree:
vgrep --show=tree
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Display the number of matches for each file in the tree:
vgrep --show=files
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Start an interactive shell with cached matches:
vgrep --interactive
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