ag Command Examples
The Silver Searcher. Like
ack
, but aims to be faster. More information: https://manned.org/ag.
- Find files containing "foo", and print the line matches in context:
ag {{foo}}
- Find files containing "foo" in a specific directory:
ag {{foo}} {{path/to/directory}}
- Find files containing "foo", but only list the filenames:
ag {{[-l|--files-with-matches]}} {{foo}}
- Find files containing "FOO" case-insensitively, and print only the match, rather than the whole line:
ag {{[-i|--ignore-case]}} {{[-o|--only-matching]}} {{FOO}}
- Find "foo" in files with a name matching "bar":
ag {{foo}} {{[-G|--file-search-regex]}} {{bar}}
- Find files whose contents match a regular expression:
ag '{{^ba(r|z)$}}'
- Find files with a name matching "foo":
ag {{[-g|--filename-pattern]}} {{foo}}