1git-grep(1) 2=========== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-grep - Print lines matching a pattern 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11[verse] 12'git grep' [--cached] 13 [-a | --text] [-I] [-i | --ignore-case] [-w | --word-regexp] 14 [-v | --invert-match] [-h|-H] [--full-name] 15 [-E | --extended-regexp] [-G | --basic-regexp] 16 [-F | --fixed-strings] [-n] 17 [-l | --files-with-matches] [-L | --files-without-match] 18 [-c | --count] [--all-match] 19 [-A <post-context>] [-B <pre-context>] [-C <context>] 20 [-f <file>] [-e] <pattern> 21 [--and|--or|--not|(|)|-e <pattern>...] [<tree>...] 22 [--] [<path>...] 23 24DESCRIPTION 25----------- 26Look for specified patterns in the working tree files, blobs 27registered in the index file, or given tree objects. 28 29 30OPTIONS 31------- 32--cached:: 33 Instead of searching in the working tree files, check 34 the blobs registered in the index file. 35 36-a:: 37--text:: 38 Process binary files as if they were text. 39 40-i:: 41--ignore-case:: 42 Ignore case differences between the patterns and the 43 files. 44 45-I:: 46 Don't match the pattern in binary files. 47 48-w:: 49--word-regexp:: 50 Match the pattern only at word boundary (either begin at the 51 beginning of a line, or preceded by a non-word character; end at 52 the end of a line or followed by a non-word character). 53 54-v:: 55--invert-match:: 56 Select non-matching lines. 57 58-h:: 59-H:: 60 By default, the command shows the filename for each 61 match. `-h` option is used to suppress this output. 62 `-H` is there for completeness and does not do anything 63 except it overrides `-h` given earlier on the command 64 line. 65 66--full-name:: 67 When run from a subdirectory, the command usually 68 outputs paths relative to the current directory. This 69 option forces paths to be output relative to the project 70 top directory. 71 72-E:: 73--extended-regexp:: 74-G:: 75--basic-regexp:: 76 Use POSIX extended/basic regexp for patterns. Default 77 is to use basic regexp. 78 79-F:: 80--fixed-strings:: 81 Use fixed strings for patterns (don't interpret pattern 82 as a regex). 83 84-n:: 85 Prefix the line number to matching lines. 86 87-l:: 88--files-with-matches:: 89--name-only:: 90-L:: 91--files-without-match:: 92 Instead of showing every matched line, show only the 93 names of files that contain (or do not contain) matches. 94 For better compatibility with 'git-diff', --name-only is a 95 synonym for --files-with-matches. 96 97-c:: 98--count:: 99 Instead of showing every matched line, show the number of 100 lines that match. 101 102-[ABC] <context>:: 103 Show `context` trailing (`A` -- after), or leading (`B` 104 -- before), or both (`C` -- context) lines, and place a 105 line containing `--` between contiguous groups of 106 matches. 107 108-<num>:: 109 A shortcut for specifying -C<num>. 110 111-f <file>:: 112 Read patterns from <file>, one per line. 113 114-e:: 115 The next parameter is the pattern. This option has to be 116 used for patterns starting with - and should be used in 117 scripts passing user input to grep. Multiple patterns are 118 combined by 'or'. 119 120--and:: 121--or:: 122--not:: 123( ... ):: 124 Specify how multiple patterns are combined using Boolean 125 expressions. `--or` is the default operator. `--and` has 126 higher precedence than `--or`. `-e` has to be used for all 127 patterns. 128 129--all-match:: 130 When giving multiple pattern expressions combined with `--or`, 131 this flag is specified to limit the match to files that 132 have lines to match all of them. 133 134`<tree>...`:: 135 Search blobs in the trees for specified patterns. 136 137\--:: 138 Signals the end of options; the rest of the parameters 139 are <path> limiters. 140 141 142Example 143------- 144 145git grep -e \'#define\' --and \( -e MAX_PATH -e PATH_MAX \):: 146 Looks for a line that has `#define` and either `MAX_PATH` or 147 `PATH_MAX`. 148 149git grep --all-match -e NODE -e Unexpected:: 150 Looks for a line that has `NODE` or `Unexpected` in 151 files that have lines that match both. 152 153Author 154------ 155Originally written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, later 156revamped by Junio C Hamano. 157 158 159Documentation 160-------------- 161Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 162 163GIT 164--- 165Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite