🔍Livegrep-CLI🔍

Livegrep-CLI is a command line interface for the Livegrep tool. ⚡

Why?

Livegrep is a popular code-search tool used by many organizations to search across their code. A public instance (that searches within the Linux kernel source code) can be found at https://livegrep.com/. There's an offical CLI tool for this, but I couldn't find a CLI tool that provided the set of configurable options I wanted so I decided to write one myself. :)

This is my first Golang project of any substance, so please excuse any mistakes or non-idiomatic code. Please open an issue or file a PR if you spot any bugs or would like to suggest any improvements.

Use

By default livegrep-cli will run against the public Livegrep instance at https://livegrep.com/. This can be altered by setting the LIVEGREP_URL environment variable.

$ LIVEGREP_URL=livegrep.com ./livegrep-cli $query

Command line flags are intended to be at least mostly compatible with familiar flags from grep and ag The Silver Searcher.

Supported environment variables:

• LIVEGREP_HOST sets the url that Livegrep should use (by default livegrep.com.
• LIVEGREP_USE_HTTPS determines whether Livegrep should use https (By default HTTPS is enabled).
• LIVEGREP_UNIX_SOCKET allows you to proxy traffic through a local Unix socket.

Copyright 2018 Isaac Diamond. Released under the MIT license.