Limiting silver-searcher to only search specific file types

Question

I'm doing ag "active_record" ., but I want to only care about .rb files.

How do I limit what file types it searches on the command line?

Luke H · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-17T01:50:50.910

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Succintly,

ag active_record --ruby

Also you can use:

ag --list-file-types to list the supported file types

Otherwise you can limit by extension (also for unknown filetypes) by providing a regex as follows:

ag -G'\.rb$' active_record

Edited due to correction by bobbaluba

edited Feb 17 '18 at 01:50

answered Aug 24 '16 at 14:11

Luke H

This doesn't work for me. I think it should be ag active_record --ruby. – vise Oct 11 '17 at 10:34
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It's -G, not -g. – bobbaluba Feb 15 '18 at 15:29

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