Code Search

Code Search is a tool for indexing and then performing regular expression searches over large bodies of source code. It is a set of command-line programs written in Go.

For background and an overview of the commands, see http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp4.html.

To install:

go get github.com/andrewarchi/codesearch/cmd/...

Use go get -u to update an existing installation.

Russ Cox
rsc@swtch.com
June 2015

About this fork

This fork introduces a number of features and bug fixes.

• Skips files excluded by local, global, and system .gitignore files
• Improves usage as library:
  • Returns error values, rather than exiting, to give control to caller
  • Adds regexp.CompileFlags
  • Adds (*index.Index).NumNames (evanj) and (*index.Index).Names
• Searches current working directory and parents for a .csearchindex file (tomnomnom)
• Adds flags to cindex:
  • -index path to the index (taliesinb)
  • -nogitignore do not skip files in .gitignore
  • -logskip log skipped files
• Adds flags to cgrep:
  • -index path to the index (taliesinb)
• Adds flags to csearch:
  • -0 null delimit file names (taliesinb)
• Updates build scripts for current Go tools