tldr/pages/common/pt.md

pt

Platinum Searcher. A code search tool similar to ag. More information: https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher.

• Find files containing "foo" and print the files with highlighted matches:

pt {{foo}}

• Find files containing "foo" and display count of matches in each file:

pt {{[-c|--count]}} {{foo}}

• Find files containing "foo" as a whole word and ignore its case:

pt {{[-wi|--word-regexp --ignore-case]}} {{foo}}

• Find "foo" in files with a given extension using a regex:

pt {{[-G|--file-search-regexp]}}='{{\.bar$}}' {{foo}}

• Find files whose contents match the regex, up to 2 directories deep:

pt --depth={{2}} -e '{{^ba[rz]*$}}'