People typically say 'grep -e $pattern' because $pattern has a leading
dash which would be mistaken as a grep flag. Make sure we pass -e in
front of $pattern when we invoke grep.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This allows any arbitrary flags to "grep", and knows about the few
special grep flags that take an argument too.
It also allows some flags for git-ls-files, although their usefulness
is questionable.
With this, something line
git grep -w -1 pattern
works, without the script enumerating every possible flag.
[jc: this is the version Linus sent out after I showed him a
barf-o-meter test version that avoids shell arrays. He must
have typed this version blindly, since he said:
I'm not barfing, but that's probably because my brain just shut
down and is desperately trying to gouge my eyes out with a spoon.
I slightly fixed it to catch the remaining arguments meant to be
given git-ls-files.]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Very convenient shorthand for
git-ls-files [file-patterns] | xargs grep <pattern>
which I tend to do all the time.
Yes, it's trivial, but it's really nice. I can do
git grep '\<some_variable\>' arch/i386 include/asm-i386
and it does exactly what you'd think it does. And since it just uses the
normal git-ls-files file patterns, you can do things like
git grep something 'include/*.h'
and it will search all header files under the include/ subdirectory.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
