CODESEARCH(1)

🌸 CODESEARCH 💅

okay bestie, gather round, because we're talking about codesearch — the Debian Codesearch CLI tool 🎀 it lives in your terminal, it finds stuff, and it's lowkey iconic.

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

here's the whole vibe, exactly as the tool spits it out when you summon it:

usage: codesearch [-h] [--max-results MAX_RESULTS] [-q] [-l] [--nocolor]
[-n]

       [-d] [-x EXCLUDE] [-m {literal,regexp}] [--per-package]
       searchstring

🦋 positional arguments:

• searchstring — yeah this is the thing you're looking for. that's it. that's the whole job. the search string. periodt.

🧚 options:

• -h, --help — shows you this help message and then dips (exit). your little safety net 🫶
• --max-results MAX_RESULTS — takes a value called MAX_RESULTS. and that is genuinely all the manpage says about it, bestie. no description, no elaboration, it's giving mysterious main character energy 💀
• -q, --quiet — quiet mode. again, the manpage just... leaves it there with no explanation. silence really is the point 🙈
• -l, --linenumber — linenumber. also undescribed. we love a flag that lets the name do the talking ✨
• --nocolor — Do not colorize output. so no pretty rainbow text, just plain unseasoned output. sad but sometimes necessary 😭
• -n, --print-filenames — Print only matching filenames, no contents. just the names, no receipts, no receipts-adjacent content. like a guest list, not the whole party 👑
• -d, --dedupe — amalgamate results for the same file in different packages. so if the same file keeps showing up in a bunch of different packages, it gets smooshed into one. obsessed. no more duplicate jumpscares 🔥
• -x EXCLUDE, --exclude EXCLUDE — list of path fragments to exclude from results. you hand it a list of path fragments and those get yeeted out of your results. not invited to the function 🚫
• -m {literal,regexp}, --mode {literal,regexp} — search mode (literal or regexp). pick your fighter: literal or regexp. two options, one destiny ⭐
• --per-package — group results per source package. so everything gets sorted by its source package instead of one big chaotic pile. organized. structured. slay 🌈

lowkey important: a few of these options come with zero description in the manpage itself. i'm not out here making stuff up about what they do — i'm just telling you they exist, exactly as written. fr fr 💖

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was codesearch version 1.0.0, dated June 2024 🎀 thanks for reading, go search something, mwah 💅✨