[base698]

I seem to find things faster than my coworkers. The ability to quickly filter out non relevant files and do nested searches of the searches is the strong point. Unix as an IDE and all.

[sillysaurus3]

Examples, please? If you have the time.

[base698]

These are just a few examples I do pretty frequently:

Nested Search:

  ag functionName | ag moreSpecificContextLikeArgs

Find variable changed yesterday:

  git log -p --since yesterday | ag varName

Find controllers changed yesterday:

  git log --oneline --showfile | ag controllers

What files did I work on last week:

  git log --name-only --oneline --author me --since 1.weeks

How many JS commits did I do last month?

  git log --since 1.months --author me  --name-only | ag -i '\.js$' | wc -l

How many JS commits did I do on each file last month?

   git log --since 1.months --author me  --name-only | ag -i '\.js$' | awk '{arr[$1]++} END {for(i in arr) print arr[i]," - ",i}' | sort -r -n

Change a "classname" from MyClass to BetterName:

  ag MyClass # verify it only finds what you think it will
  ag MyClass | awk -F':' '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | while read line 
  do
    sed -i' ' 's/MyClass/BetterName/g' $line
  done

[a_e_k]

Nested searches are handy. They can also be used to find cases of one thing within a few lines of proximity to another:

    ack -C5 firstThing | less
    /secondThing

One bonus ack trick that I like also like is bulk loading into Emacs for further manipulation (e.g., multi-occur and then occur-edit-mode):

    emacsclient -n `ack -l functionName`