Add "git grep" helper
- From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Date
- Sep 12, 2005, 19:06 UTC
- Message-ID
- <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509121203210.4098@g5.osdl.org>
Very convenient shorthand for
git-ls-files [file-patterns] | xargs grep <pattern>
which I tend to do all the time.
Yes, it's trivial, but it's really nice. I can do
git grep '\<some_variable\>' arch/i386 include/asm-i386
and it does exactly what you'd think it does. And since it just uses the normal git-ls-files file patterns, you can do things like
git grep something 'include/*.h'
and it will search all header files under the include/ subdirectory.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> ---
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ SCRIPT_SH = \ git-tag.sh git-verify-tag.sh git-whatchanged.sh git.sh \ git-applymbox.sh git-applypatch.sh \ git-merge.sh git-merge-stupid.sh git-merge-octopus.sh \ - git-merge-resolve.sh + git-merge-resolve.sh git-grep.sh SCRIPT_PERL = \ git-archimport.perl git-cvsimport.perl git-relink.perl \ diff --git a/git-grep.sh b/git-grep.sh new file mode 100755 --- /dev/null +++ b/git-grep.sh @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +#!/bin/sh +flags= +while :; do + pattern="$1" + case "$pattern" in + -i|-I|-a|-E|-H|-h|-l) + flags="$flags $pattern" + shift + ;; + -*) + echo "unknown flag $pattern" >&2 + exit 1 + ;; + *) + break + ;; + esac +done +shift +git-ls-files -z "$@" | xargs -0 grep $flags "$pattern"