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Revision as of 16:22, 5 February 2024
The silver searcher is a file-searching module ag
that searches more quickly than grep, and lets you perform
multiline regex.
Documentation
github https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
Install
sudo pacman -S the_silver_searcher # arch brew install the_silver_searcher # macos
Usage
ag 'file.touch(\n\s.*)+' # multiline search example ag 'Foo(?!Bar)' # lookahead/lookbehind! ag '(?<=Foo)Bar' ag --pager='less -Ri' search # ag to pager ag -G '.*\.rb$' foo # search files matching '.*\.rb$' ag search \ -l `# print files only` \
