# is there a 'git find'? 3 messages from 2009-08-05 to 2009-08-05. Participants: E R, Sverre Rabbelier, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/20379 ## E R, 2009-08-05 04:14 Subject: is there a 'git find'? Message-ID: <3a69fa7c0908042114v7097e87esbe18f49eef9267f5@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/3a69fa7c0908042114v7097e87esbe18f49eef9267f5%40mail.gmail.com ``` Hi, Within a specific commit I'd like to find all the files whose path names match a regular expression. Without checking out the commit, is there a way to do this? I'd like to add this feature to gitweb. Thanks, ER ``` ## Sverre Rabbelier, 2009-08-05 04:37 Subject: Re: is there a 'git find'? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/fabb9a1e0908042137x68beaeccv69a6974b41584ef4%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <3a69fa7c0908042114v7097e87esbe18f49eef9267f5@mail.gmail.com> ``` Heya, On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 21:14, E R wrote: > Within a specific commit I'd like to find all the files whose path > names match a regular expression. Try 'git ls-files' [0]. [0] https://www.cs.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/manServer.pl/usr/share/man/man1/git-ls-files.1 -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2009-08-05 04:38 Subject: Re: is there a 'git find'? Message-ID: <7veirqub81.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7veirqub81.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org In-Reply-To: <3a69fa7c0908042114v7097e87esbe18f49eef9267f5@mail.gmail.com> ``` E R writes: > Within a specific commit I'd like to find all the files whose path > names match a regular expression. git ls-tree -r [--name-only | -t] "$commit" | grep -e "$pattern" ? ```