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ag

The Silver Searcher. Like ack, but aims to be faster. More information: https://manned.org/ag.

• Find files containing string, and print the line matches in context:

ag string

• Find files containing string in a specific directory:

ag string {{path/to/directory}}

• Find files containing string, but only list the filenames:

ag {{[-l|--files-with-matches]}} string

• Find files containing STRING case-insensitively, and print only the match, rather than the whole line:

ag {{[-i|--ignore-case]}} {{[-o|--only-matching]}} STRING

• Find string in files with a name matching file_name:

ag string {{[-G|--file-search-regex]}} file_name

• Find files whose contents match a regex:

ag '{{^ca(t|r)$}}'

• Find files with a name matching string:

ag {{[-g|--filename-pattern]}} string