Command-line tool

vgrep

brew/vgrep

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User-friendly pager for grep

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

macOS

brew install vgrep

Linux

brew install vgrep

Recursively search the current directory for a pattern and cache it

vgrep search_pattern

Display the contents of the cache

vgrep

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

vgrep -s 4

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