sgrep

sgrep

Structural grep

Motivation

When you want to grep some information from a structured document, like code, configuration file, the result may disapoint you:

$ grep mockito pom.xml --color
    <mockito-all.version>1.9.0</mockito-all.version>
        <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
        <artifactId>mockito-all</artifactId>
        <version>${mockito-all.version}</version>
      <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
      <artifactId>mockito-all</artifactId>

Lack of context makes the results hard to read.

Try sgrep:

$ sgrep mockito pom.xmlpom.xml
      <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
        <properties>
 889:     <mockito-all.version>1.9.0>/mockito-all.version>
        </properties>
        <dependencyManagement>
          <dependencies>
            <dependency>
1325:         <groupId>org.mockito>/groupId>
1326:         <artifactId>mockito-all>/artifactId>
1327:         <version>${mockito-all.version}>/version>
            </dependency>
          </dependencies>
        </dependencyManagement>
        <dependencies>
          <dependency>
1360:       <groupId>org.mockito>/groupId>
1361:       <artifactId>mockito-all>/artifactId>
          </dependency>
        </dependencies>
      </project>

sgrep analyze the structure of the document and give enough hierarchical context to let you know the position of the match text.

LICENSE

Apache License V2