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vgrep

A user friendly pager for grep. See also: ugrep, rg. More information: https://github.com/vrothberg/vgrep.
  • 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 --show {{4}}
  • Display a context of "3" lines for each match in the cache:
    vgrep --show=context{{3}}
  • Display the number of matches for each directory in the tree:
    vgrep --show=tree
  • Display the number of matches for each file in the tree:
    vgrep --show=files
  • Start an interactive shell with cached matches:
    vgrep --interactive

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