How To Install vgrep on Fedora 34

vgrep is User-friendly pager for grep

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vgrep on Fedora 34.

What is `vgrep`

vgrep is a pager for grep, git-grep, ripgrep and similar grep implementations, and allows for opening the indexed file locations in a user-specified editor such as vim or emacs. vgrep is inspired by the ancient cgvg scripts but extended to perform further operations such as listing statistics of files and directory trees or showing the context lines before and after the matches.

We can use yum or dnf to install vgrep on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vgrep.

Install vgrep on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install vgrep using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vgrep

Install vgrep on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install vgrep using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vgrep

How To Uninstall vgrep on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the vgrep package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove vgrep

vgrep Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/vgrep
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd/49212336e62f0a1e3e6038206e9146240c21fd
/usr/share/doc/vgrep
/usr/share/doc/vgrep/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/vgrep
/usr/share/licenses/vgrep/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/vgrep.1.gz

References

vgrep website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install vgrep on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.