vgrep Command Examples

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=context{{3}}

• 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