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git-grep:tldr:7b110
git-grep: Search for a string in tracked files.
$ git grep ${search_string}
try on your machine
The command git grep ${search_string}
is used to search for a specific string or pattern in the files of a Git repository.
Here's how it works:
git grep
is the command that triggers the grep functionality within Git.${search_string}
is a placeholder that should be replaced with the actual string or pattern you want to search for. For example, if you want to search for the word "hello", you would replace${search_string}
withhello
.- When the command is executed, Git will search through all the files in the current Git repository for occurrences of the specified
${search_string}
.
The output of the command will show the file names and the lines where the ${search_string}
was found. It may also highlight the matched string within the output lines to make it easier to identify.
By default, git grep
is case-sensitive. However, you can use options like -i
or --ignore-case
to perform a case-insensitive search. You can also use regular expressions as the ${search_string}
to perform more complex pattern matching.
This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and
never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.