vgrep

A user friendly pager for grep. tldr-pages

On several platforms

Several platforms

Recursively search the current directory for a pattern and cache it

vgrep search_patternIdentify

Display the contents of the cache

Open the "4th" match from the cache in the default editor

vgrep --show 4Identify

Display a context of "3" lines for each match in the cache

vgrep --show [c3Identify

Display the number of matches for each directory in the tree

vgrep --show [tIdentify

Display the number of matches for each file in the tree

vgrep --show [fIdentify

Start an interactive shell with cached matches

vgrep --interactiveIdentify