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svent / sift

A fast and powerful alternative to grep
https://sift-tool.org
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Limit depth of search? #104

Open prologic opened 5 years ago

prologic commented 5 years ago

Does it make sense to add a feature to limit the depth of search to N sub-directories deep?

e.g:

sift -d 2 'mystring'  # search for "mystring" in files but don't recurse more then 2 directories deep