These are just a few examples I do pretty frequently: Nested Search: ag functionName | ag moreSpecificContextLikeArgs Find variable changed yesterday: g

These 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