pt

Platinum Searcher. A code search tool similar to ag. More information: https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher.

• Find files containing “foo” and print the files with highlighted matches:

pt foo

• Find files containing “foo” and display count of matches in each file:

pt -c foo

• Find files containing “foo” as a whole word and ignore its case:

pt -wi foo

• Find “foo” in files with a given extension using a regular expression:

pt -G='\.bar$' foo

• Find files whose contents match the regular expression, up to 2 directories deep:

pt --depth=2 -e '^ba[rz]*$'