Add filename-only option

[ddrcoder]

I quite frequently use grep -l to simply identify files which contained any match of the given pattern. Since only existence checking is required, you could terminate at the first match. The list of files can then be fed to xargs or the like. This would go hand-in-hand with the -0, --null option.

[BurntSushi]

This is already done. It's in 0.2.0.

[Flaque]

To be clear for folks who stumbled upon this like I did, the way to only show filenames in rg is the same as in grep:

$ rg -l 

[watsoncj]

Here's the relevant help section from ripgrep 12.1.0:

    -l, --files-with-matches
            Only print the paths with at least one match.

            This overrides --files-without-match.

[iburunat]

Maybe helpful to know that adding the flag -c/--counter will show the number of lines matching the searched term. The flag --count-matches will count the number of matches instead (see man page).

[NetMage]

I think the help could be a little clearer - it doesn't clearly imply that the matches won't be printed.

[SoftwareApe]

I agree with @NetMage I looked through all the file related options in the help and this one didn't seem to apply.

Only print the paths with at least one match.

To me this says that it will only print those files that have at least one match. Which sounds like the default behavior. It doesn't say that it doesn't print the match, which is what most people are likely looking for.

I think it would be more clear if the help read

Only print the path to the files with matches, not the matches.

[NightMachinery]

To be clear for folks who stumbled upon this like I did, the way to only show filenames in rg is the same as in grep:

$ rg -l 

rg -l ., to just list everything.

[RichardBronosky]

Thank you for this! I used it to make vg, the perfect companion to rg.

function vg() { $EDITOR $(rg -l "$@"); }

Then I can follow up "find all files containing pattern" with "edit them".