A grep-like tool tailored for code.
codegrep is like grep, but it is able to skip comments and strings in the code.
codegrep [-wWiIcCsS] <pattern> [files...]
Pattern is a Lua pattern, which is similar to regex but not the same, except that '-' is taken literally.
Source files supported are: *.c *.h *.lua *.java *.grace *.js *.html
If files are not given, it recursively searches for source files in the current directory (-r is accepted for compatibility but ignored).
- -w -W - Enable or disable whole-word search (default is off)
- -i -I - Enable or disable case-insensitive search (default is on)
- -c -C - Enable or disable search in comments (default is off: skips comments)
- -s -S - Enable or disable search in strings (default is off: skips strings)
- -k -K - Enable or disable search in key-like strings, that is, strings containing only the search term (default is off: skips those strings)
codegrep -wc foo
Looks for the word foo in all source files of the tree, including comments.
GNU GPL v3