AppBase::Grep - A base for grep-like CLI utilities
This document describes version 0.009 of AppBase::Grep (from Perl distribution AppBase-Grep), released on 2021-07-01.
Usage:
grep(%args) -> [$status_code, $reason, $payload, \%result_meta]
A base for grep-like CLI utilities.
This routine provides a base for grep-like CLI utilities. It accepts coderef as source of lines, which in the actual utilities can be from files or other sources. It provides common options like -i, -v, -c, color highlighting, and so on.
-i
-v
-c
Examples of CLI utilities that are based on this: abgrep, grep-coin (from App::CryptoCurrencyUtils).
Why? For grepping lines from files or stdin, abgrep is no match for the standard grep (or its many alternatives): it's orders of magnitude slower and currently has fewer options. But AppBase::Grep is a quick way to create grep-like utilities that grep from a custom sources but have common/standard grep features.
Compared to the standard grep, AppBase::Grep also has these unique features:
--all option to match all patterns instead of just one;
--all
observe the COLOR environment variable to set --color default;
COLOR
--color
This function is not exported.
Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):
all => true
Require all patterns to match, instead of just one.
color => str (default: "auto")
count => true
Supress normal output, return a count of matching lines.
dash_prefix_inverts => bool
When given pattern that starts with dash "-FOO", make it to mean "^(?!.*FOO)".
This is a convenient way to search for lines that do not match a pattern. Instead of using -v to invert the meaning of all patterns, this option allows you to invert individual pattern using the dash prefix, which is also used by Google search and a few other search engines.
ignore_case => bool
invert_match => bool
Invert the sense of matching.
line_number => true
pattern => str
quiet => true
regexps => array[str]
Returns an enveloped result (an array).
First element ($status_code) is an integer containing HTTP-like status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element ($reason) is a string containing error message, or something like "OK" if status is 200. Third element ($payload) is the actual result, but usually not present when enveloped result is an error response ($status_code is not 2xx). Fourth element (%result_meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information, much like how HTTP response headers provide additional metadata.
Return value: (any)
If set, will disable color. Takes precedence over "COLOR" but not --color.
Boolean. If set to true, will set default --color to always instead of auto. If set to false, will set default --color to never instead of auto. This behavior is not in GNU grep.
always
auto
never
String. Will search color themes in AppBase::Grep::ColorTheme::* as well as Generic::ColorTheme::* modules.
AppBase::Grep::ColorTheme::*
Generic::ColorTheme::*
Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/AppBase-Grep.
Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-AppBase-Grep.
Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=AppBase-Grep
When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.
perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>
This software is copyright (c) 2021, 2020, 2018 by perlancar@cpan.org.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
To install AppBase::Grep, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm AppBase::Grep
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install AppBase::Grep
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.