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# Grep For A Pattern On Another Branch
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Git has a built-in `grep` command that works essentially the same as the
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standard `grep` command that unix users are used to. The benefit of
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`git-grep` is that it is tightly integrated with Git.
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You can search for occurrences of a pattern on another branch. For example,
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if you have a feature branch, `my-feature`, on which you'd like to search
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for occurrences of `user.last_name`, then your command would look like this:
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```bash
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$ git grep 'user\.last_name' my-feature
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```
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If there are matching results, they follow this format:
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```
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my-feature:app/views/users/show.html.erb: <%= user.last_name %>
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...
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```
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This formatting is handy because you can easily copy the branch and file
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directive for use with [`git-show`](viewing-a-file-on-another-branch.md).
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See `man git-grep` for more details.
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