g.search.modules(1grass)

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version 8.5.0 · 10 versions
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🦋 g.search.modules 💅

okay so bestie, you know how GRASS has like a million modules and you're just standing there like 🧍‍♀️ trying to remember which one does the thing? yeah. this is the one that finds the one. it's the manual page for g.search.modules and it's genuinely so useful, i'm obsessed. 🌸

✨ NAME ✨

g.search.modules — Search in GRASS modules using keywords

🎀 KEYWORDS 🎀

general, modules, search

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

g.search.modules
g.search.modules --help
g.search.modules [-anmkcgj]  [keyword=string[,string,...]]   [--help]  [--verbose]  [--quiet]  [--ui]

🫶 Flags:

  • -a — Display only modules where all keywords are available (AND), default: OR
  • -n — Invert selection (logical NOT)
  • -m — Search in manual pages too (can be slow)
  • -k — Search only for the exact keyword in module keyword list Instead of full text search, search only in actual keywords
  • -c — Use colorized (more readable) output to terminal
  • -g — Shell script format
  • -j — JSON format
  • --help — Print usage summary
  • --verbose — Verbose module output
  • --quiet — Quiet module output
  • --ui — Force launching GUI dialog

🌸 Parameters:

  • keyword=string[,string,...] — Keyword to be searched List all modules if not given

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

g.search.modules goes hunting for whatever keyword you throw at it, and it looks in GRASS module names, descriptions, keywords, and — if you ask nicely — the manpages too. and yeah, your installed addons get counted as well, nobody's left out. ✨

👑 NOTES 👑

you're not limited to one keyword bestie, you can stack multiple — g.search.modules will search for all of them. 💅

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

Search all modules, where keywords buffer OR clip can be found:

g.search.modules keyword=buffer,clip
r.circle
    keywords: raster,buffer,geometry,circle
    description: Creates a raster map containing concentric rings around a
                 given point.
r.buffer.lowmem
    keywords: raster,buffer
    description: Creates a raster map showing buffer zones surrounding cells
                 that contain non-NULL category values. This is the low-
                 memory alternative to the classic r.buffer module.
r.buffer
    keywords: raster,buffer
    description: Creates a raster map showing buffer zones surrounding cells
                 that contain non-NULL category values.

Search all modules, where keywords overlay AND clip can be found with some fancy terminal output (not shown here):

g.search.modules keyword=clip,overlay -a -c
v.clip
    keywords: vector,clip,area
    description: Extracts features of input map which overlay features
                 of clip map.
v.overlay
    keywords: vector,geometry,spatial
              query,clip,difference,intersection,union
    description: Overlays two vector maps offering clip, intersection,
                 difference, symmetrical difference, union operators.

Search in manual pages as well:

g.search.modules -m keyword=kapri
db.execute
    keywords: database,attribute table,SQL
    description: Executes any SQL statement. For SELECT statements use
                 ’db.select’.
db.select
    keywords: database,attribute table,SQL
    description: Selects data from attribute table. Performs SQL query
                 statement(s).

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

  • g.manual

💜 AUTHORS 💜

  • Jachym Cepicky, OpenGeoLabs s.r.o., Czech Republic: original author
  • Anika Bettge, mundialis, Germany: addon search added

🌟 SOURCE CODE 🌟

Available at: g.search.modules source code (history)

Latest change: Thursday Nov 06 22:27:54 2025 in commit: 298b38614712934179355ea767403d6bfea8f5f9

Main index | General index | Topics index | Keywords index | Graphical index | Full index

and that's the whole page bestie, no cap 💀 the whole thing lives in the GRASS 8.5.0 Reference Manual — © 2003-2026 GRASS Development Team, running on GRASS 8.5.0 🌈 go find ur modules, u got this 🫶✨🎀

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