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The combination of a "tail" facility with RegEx searching is saving me a heap of time compared to using separate tools for each task.
- Steve, Australia

Command Line Usage

bareview [options] [pattern {file(s)}]

or

bareview (-n|--no-regex) [options] {file(s)}

where options can be:

-n, --no-regex

Indicates that no regex (search string) will be specified on the command line, so matching files will be found, instead of matching lines in matching files.

-i, --ignore-case

Case insensitive search (default search is case sensitive).

-v, --invert-match

Shows only lines which do not match the expression.

-r, --search-subfolders

Recursively searches from the current directory through all sub-folders, for any matching files. This is the default.

-l, --local-directory

Searches only the current directory for matching files.

-d, --directory directory

Specifies the directory in which to run BareView.

-wp, --window-position left top width height

Specifies the window position at startup in pixels. Note that the -ws, --window-state option, as well as the stored windows state in the registry (from the last run) overrides this option when the state is minimised or maximised.

-ws, --window-state 0 | 1 | 2

Specifies the window state at startup:

Examples

If BareView is started from the command line without any command line arguments, for example:

C:\>bareview

then it prompts the user for a search pattern and a file or files to open. Similarly, if only a pattern is specified on the command line, then BareView prompts the user for a file or files to open.

It is possible to specify one or more files on the command line, such as:

C:\>bareview struct main.cpp engine.cpp

in which case BareView would search the two files main.cpp and engine.cpp for the pattern struct.

The usual operating system wildcards can be used to specify a set of files, for example:

C:\>bareview class *.cpp engine.??

would search all files with the cpp extension and any files named engine with a two character extension for the pattern class.

It is possible to specify a case-insensitive pattern match with the -i or --ignore-case flag. For example:

C:\>bareview -i TODO

or:

C:\>bareview --ignore-case TODO

would specify a case-insensitive search for the pattern TODO.

The pattern matching can be inverted with the -v or --invert-match flag. For example:

C:\>bareview -v OK

or:

C:\>bareview --invert-match OK

would match all lines which do NOT contain the pattern OK.

The combination of a "tail" facility with RegEx searching is saving me a heap of time compared to using separate tools for each task.
- Steve, Australia

Product Overview
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Regex Reference
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