vgrep

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

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/vgrep.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install atfs
Ubuntu
apt-get install atfs
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install atfs
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install atfs
Raspbian
apt-get install atfs
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/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=context3
  • 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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