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Charles
Charles

Reputation: 11768

git grep in only untracked files

I would like to grep inside Untracked files and in files from Changes not staged for commit but not in the rest.

Is it possible to achieve this with git grep ?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1982

Answers (1)

Valarpirai
Valarpirai

Reputation: 465

To list untracked files try:

git ls-files --others --exclude-standard

To grep in untracked files.

grep 'search' $(git ls-files -m --others --exclude-standard)

replace the search word with your search string.

From man-page:

git-ls-files - Show information about files in the index and the working tree

-m, --modified
           Show modified files in the output
-o, --others
           Show other (i.e. untracked) files in the output
--exclude-standard
       Add the standard git exclusions: .git/info/exclude, .gitignore in each directory, and the user’s global exclusion file.

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Upvotes: 4

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