livegrep Reviews

livegrep Description

Livegrep, a tool partially inspired by Google Code Search for interactive regex searches of gigabyte scale source repositories, is an inspiration. Livegrep can be run by calling both the codesearch search backend index/search process and the livegrep interface. Once you have created both codesearch and livegrep, you can run the sample web interface using livegrep. The codesearch binary is responsible to read source code, maintain an index, and handle searches. Livegrep is not stateless and relies on a TCP connection to connect to codesearch. Codesearch will automatically create an in-memory search index over the repositories it has specified in its configuration file. However, you can also instruct codesearch to save the index to an on-disk file. This has the double advantage of allowing large indexes to be saved to disk and allowing them to be reused.