vcgrep

vcgrep prints a summary of all the matches of a regular-expression capture group within input files. Simple terminal visualization of the progress and results is provided. Use it to easily show the frequency of status codes from apache access logs, or the frequency of words in a text document.

Install

vcgrep requires node 0.10 or later.

npm install -g vcgrep

Examples

Frequency of status codes in an apache access log:

vcgrep '(\d+)\W+\d+$' test/sample-access.log

Frequency of words found in a text document:

vcgrep -g '(\w+)+' README.md

Frequency of words found in js documents using the full page card progress mode:

vcgrep  -p card -o none -g  -i --include '*.js' '(\w+)+' lib

Syntax

Usage: vcgrep [OPTIONS] PATTERN FILES...

Pattern

The pattern is a regular expression containing at least one capture group.

For more details on the JavaScript regular expression syntax, see: MDN

General Options

--help             Prints a summary of the usage
--verbose, -v      Verbose logging
--version          Show version number

File Selection Options

--exclude          Exclude files that match the wildcard
--include          include only files that match the wildcard

Pattern Matching Options

--global, -g       Multiple matches per line are considered
--ignore-case, -i  Ignore case for determining capture key

Output Options

--head, -h         Limit results to the most frequent n entries
--output, -o       Output format, one of: count,none,plain,json,histogram  [default: "histogram"]
--progress, -p     Progress feedback, one of: card,none,line               [default: "line"]

API

The searching, progress, and report output features are available to NodeJS modules through an API module.

For examples of how to use the API see: lib/api.js

var vcgrep = require('vcgrep');


vcgrep.searchFiles(/(\w+)+/g, ['README.md'], {progress: 'none'}, function(err, matches) {
  vcgrep.writeOutput('histogram', matches);
  console.log('Found '+matches.total+' hits across: '+matches.totalFiles+' files');
});

Change Log

[Unreleased][unreleased]

[0.3.0] - 2015-02-23

Added

• --exclude file wildcard option
• count output option with total matches and files

Changed

• Progress API now event based
• Change ignore case flag to --ignore-case from --ignore to match grep
• Pass options to search api as object

[0.2.1] - 2015-02-17

Added

• 'card' full page progress
• --ignore case of capture key

[0.2.0] - 2015-02-16

Added

• Introduce simple API entry point for direct use by NodeJS modules
• Process exit code, 0 when matches found, 1 no matches

[0.1.0] - 2015-02-14

Added

• Initial feature set

Licence

vcgrep is released under the MIT licence.

Author

David Jones

http://www.dgjones.info

https://github.com/jonesd/vcgrep