tldr/pages/common/vgrep.md

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]}}