ag - the silver searcher

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Find files containing "foo", and print the line matches in context:

ag foo

Find files containing "foo" in a specific directory:

ag foo path/to/directory

Find files containing "foo", but only list the filenames:

ag -l foo

Find files containing "FOO" case-insensitively, and print only the match, rather than the whole line:

ag -i -o FOO

Find "foo" in files with a name matching "bar"

ag foo -G bar

Find files whose contents match a regular expression:

ag '^ba(r|z)$'

Find files with a name matching "foo":

ag -g foo