vgrep – pager for grep, git-grep, ripgrep and similar grep implementations

vgrep is a pager for grep, git-grep, ripgrep and similar grep implementations, and allows for opening the indexed file locations in a user-specified editor such as vim or emacs.

vgrep is inspired by the ancient cgvg scripts but extended to perform further operations such as listing statistics of files and directory trees or showing the context lines before and after the matches.

This is free and open source software.

Features include:

• Serves as a front-end to grep or git-grep when invoking vgrep inside a git tree and uses less for displaying the result.
• By default, the output is written to less to make browsing large amounts of data more comfortable.
• Cross-platform software – runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Website: github.com/vrothberg/vgrep
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Developer: Valentin Rothberg
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

vgrep is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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