NCGREP, which is based on ncurses library to provide user interface, is a grep tool for searching text on target directory.

• Look for a pattern(just keyword for now) in your source code directory and display results in ncurses.
• Browse results with ease.
• Open a result with your favorite editor(just vim for now) at the right line.
• Search files which is ended in .php, .h, .c, .cpp suffixes.

ncgrep "grep" . 3

• . character stands for the current dirname
• 3 It represents the level of search directory grouping, the three level directory as a group for text search

After entering the interactive interface, the commands are illustrated as followed:

• KEY_UP up
• KEY_DOWN down
• KEY_ENTER open file in vim
• q quit
• k up
• j down
• CTRL-u half page up
• CTRL-d half page down
• o open file in vim
• CTRL-e return to the group interface

Firstly, you should install the dependency library:

# MAC
brew install ncurses
# CentOS
sudo yum install ncurses ncurses-devel
# Ubutun
sudo apt-get install libncurses5 libncurses5-dev

Then, compile & link:

# Just tested on Mac, CentOS and Ubutun
make

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