How do you configure your file search programs like grep, ag, ripgrep
programs to display a file just once if a pattern is found in enough?
reddit / emacs

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vfclists · 2022-06-04 07:17

Sometimes when I search for a pattern using Emacs porcelain, I just
want the file to displayed once in the results, instead of a results
entry for every match.

Are there options for searching this way? Can Emacs filter the
duplicates in its own way or pipe the results through `uniq` or some
other utility to avoid the duplicates?

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ShakesTheClown23 · 2022-06-04 07:22

I dunno about doing it through emacs, but "grep -l" (minus ell) will
list files that match rather than printing all matching lines... And
"grep -c" may also be of interest...

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[deleted] · 2022-06-04 09:56

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