 Tip #1392: Shell script to use grep with gvim
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November 21, 2006 5:09 |
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Mauro |
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6.0 |
With bash or ksh add on .bashrc or on .kshrc:
function vimgrep
{
vimgrep_temp_file=/tmp/vimgrep_$$.tmp
find . \( -name "*.cc" -o -name "*.h" -o -name "*.i" -o -name "*.icc" \) -print -follow | grep -v "CVS/" | sed "s/ /\\\/g" | xargs egrep -H -n -e $* > $vimgrep_temp_file
gvim -q $vimgrep_temp_file -c copen
rm $vimgrep_temp_file
}
and type from shell:
$ vimgrep searchstring
In vim you can set grepprg to vimgrep:
:set grepprg=vimgrep
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Additional Notes
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Anonymous,
November 21, 2006 5:19
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fix:
In vim set grepprg=vimgrep where vimgrep is:
find . \( -name "*.cc" -o -name "*.h" -o -name "*.i" -o -name "*.icc" \) -print -follow | grep -v "CVS/" | sed "s/ /\\\/g" | xargs egrep -H -n -e
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Anonymous,
November 21, 2006 7:52
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| Why not use the built-in :vimgrep command?
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[email protected],
November 21, 2006 8:24
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Yes It's correct anyway If we want to grep recursively all the *.cc *.h *.i we have to redefine the grepprg corectly
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nash at nash id au,
December 4, 2006 17:16
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If your shell is zsh, or another that supports similar extended globbing you can just use:
:grep foo **/*.c
to do pretty much the same thing.
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http://www.staniford.net,
January 22, 2007 3:46
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Hi,
I did something very similar to this a while ago, and I agree it's very useful to do this from the shell. However,
because I use it in all kinds of ways, I prefer to just have the shell script vimgrep emulate grep exactly. So that I can do:
find /etc | xargs vimgrep userid (for example)
So my vimgrep shell script behaves just like grep does and takes all greps args. It also doesn't bother starting vim if grep returns zero matches...
#!/bin/bash
date=`date +%s`;
grep -n "$@" > /tmp/grep-$date
fs=`du -b /tmp/grep-$date | cut -f1`
if [ $fs -gt 0 ]
then
gvim -q /tmp/grep-$date
fi
rm /tmp/grep-$date
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