tldr/pages/common/ugrep.md

ugrep

Ultra fast search tool with query TUI. More information: https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep.

• Start a query TUI to search files in the current directory recursively (CTRL-Z for help):

ugrep --query

• Search the current directory recursively for files containing a regex search pattern:

ugrep "{{search_pattern}}"

• Search in a specific file or in all files in a specific directory, showing line numbers of matches:

ugrep --line-number "{{search_pattern}}" {{path/to/file_or_directory}}

• Search in all files in the current directory recursively and print the name of each matching file:

ugrep --files-with-matches "{{search_pattern}}"

• Fuzzy search files with up to 3 extra, missing or mismatching characters in the pattern:

ugrep --fuzzy={{3}} "{{search_pattern}}"

• Also search compressed files, zip and tar archives recursively:

ugrep --decompress "{{search_pattern}}"

• Search only files whose filenames match a specific glob pattern:

ugrep --glob="{{glob_pattern}}" "{{search_pattern}}"

• Search only C++ source files (use --file-type=list to list all file types):

ugrep --file-type=cpp "{{search_pattern}}"