Grep utility for outlines, trees, and when indentation matters.
Useful for working with TODO lists when you need the full context of a match.
You first need rust-pcre. Then compile with:
rustc treegrep.rs -L /path/to/rust-pcre
Usage is similar to grep. It works with one or more files, including piping from stdin.
treegrep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Example:
treegrep "\[>\]" ~/.tasks
Output:
[ ] some group of tasks
[ ] subtasks
[>] current task here!
There are no options yet but I have a few ideas listed in comments (tab size, leaves only, etc.)
The cli program tree outputs directory trees, but it doesn't work with treegrep since the indentation style is different. It would be cool to see treegrep take a directory tree instead of files as input (maybe -d?). Or alternatively, the ability to treat certain characters as whitespace so you could just do tree | treegrep "blah"
Pull requests and other ideas are welcome. :)
You may add your name here if you add/fix something, etc.
Grady O'Connell <github.com/flipcoder>
Thanks to #rust and /r/rust for helping with bugs and giving tips!
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