I want something like $ grep -rin "foo bar" but with the option to display the file location visually like tree but with the results trimmed so that only the recursive directories are displayed. It would be better if it was structured so that the directory listing is only displayed once with every location displayed within the directory tree. Like if I want to know every location where a method is called, I can quickly parse that on the command line. Anyone know of a tool that does this already or a simple technique, or do I need to script it myself?

  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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    5 days ago

    Combine both grep and tree commands:

    grep -rl "find" | tree --fromfile -F

    Edit: The rg example didn’t work correclty. Not sure what I was testing. But looks like the grep variant works as intended. Please report if its not.

    Another Edit, because this is fun: A simple function for your .bashrc (functions are like alias, but allow more complex code, such as arguments):

    treegrep() {
    # grep:
    #   --recursive             like --directories=recurse
    #   --files-with-match      print only names of FILEs with selected lines
    # tree:
    #   --fromfile              Reads paths from files (.=stdin)
    #   -F                      Appends '/', '=', '*', '@', '|' or '>' as per ls -F.
    grep --recursive --files-with-match "${@}" |
        tree --fromfile -F
}