Bug 447006

Summary:	app-portage/portage-utils: qgrep: should parse multiple args over entire file for broader search results
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Pariksheet Nanda <pariksheet.nanda>
Component:	Third-Party Tools	Assignee:	Fabian Groffen <grobian>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Pariksheet Nanda 2012-12-12 14:12:20 UTC

qgrep should default to searching multiple arguments anywhere in a file.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Run `grep cmake-utils swig`
Actual Results:  
No result is found

Expected Results:  
qgrep should search for both search terms in the file such as:
grep -rl 'cmake-utils' --include '*.ebuild' /usr/portage | xargs grep -l 'swig'

Comment 1 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev

2018-03-31 18:42:39 UTC

Ok, I see what you want, but grep doesn't support this behaviour either.  Instead, it allows you to use alternatives in your regex argument, e.g. grep -E '(a|b)'.  Since qgrep supports regexes, you can just do the same.

In your scenario:

qgrep -x '(cmake-utils|swig)'