A grep-like tool tailored for code.

codegrep is like grep, but it is able to skip comments and strings in the code.

   codegrep [-wWiIcCsS] <pattern> [files...]

Pattern is a Lua pattern, which is similar to regex but not the same, except that '-' is taken literally.

Source files supported are: *.c *.h *.lua *.java *.grace *.js *.html

If files are not given, it recursively searches for source files in the current directory (-r is accepted for compatibility but ignored).

• -w -W - Enable or disable whole-word search (default is off)
• -i -I - Enable or disable case-insensitive search (default is on)
• -c -C - Enable or disable search in comments (default is off: skips comments)
• -s -S - Enable or disable search in strings (default is off: skips strings)
• -k -K - Enable or disable search in key-like strings, that is, strings containing only the search term (default is off: skips those strings)

   codegrep -wc foo

Looks for the word foo in all source files of the tree, including comments.

GNU GPL v3