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I seem to find things faster than my coworkers. The ability to quickly filter out non relevant files and do nested searches of the searches is the strong point
by base698 12y ago
I seem to find things faster than my coworkers. The ability to quickly filter out non relevant files and do nested searches of the searches is the strong point. Unix as an IDE and all.
- sillysaurus3 12y agoExamples, please? If you have the time.
- base698 12y agoThese are just a few examples I do pretty frequently: Nested Search: ag functionName | ag moreSpecificContextLikeArgs Find variable changed yesterday: git log -p --since yesterday | ag varName Find controllers changed yesterday: git log --oneline --showfile | ag controllers What files did I work on last week: git log --name-only --oneline --author me --since 1.weeks How many JS commits did I do last month? git log --since 1.months --author me --name-only | ag -i '\.js$' | wc -l How many JS commits did I do on each file last month? git log --since 1.months --author me --name-only | ag -i '\.js$' | awk '{arr[$1]++} END {for(i in arr) print arr[i]," - ",i}' | sort -r -n Change a "classname" from MyClass to BetterName: ag MyClass # verify it only finds what you think it will ag MyClass | awk -F':' '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | while read line do sed -i' ' 's/MyClass/BetterName/g' $line done
- a_e_k 12y agoNested searches are handy. They can also be used to find cases of one thing within a few lines of proximity to another: ack -C5 firstThing | less /secondThing One bonus ack trick that I like also like is bulk loading into Emacs for further manipulation (e.g., multi-occur and then occur-edit-mode): emacsclient -n `ack -l functionName`