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February 26, 2016 16:19
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Git grep within a specific sub-directory.
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| # Search for `analytics` only inside `./src/app` | |
| git grep analytics -- "./src/app/*" |
@nickmeldrum what if you want to search for 'src/app'? how would you do that?
Sometimes it's not so much about 'less characters' but more about the precision of the command.
The double dash is an delimiter for 'end of options' so the program is sure that you're sending paths instead of search arguments.
It can be applied to most coreutils and you can find more on this answer
@benjamincharity Exactly what I was looking for. thanks!
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on my version of git (
2.17.1) the following behaves the same as above with less characters to type:git grep analytics src/app