A fork of Google Code Search to make it a more generally usable tool

Prebuilt binaries for this fork

• New releases https://github.com/junkblocker/codesearch/releases

Installing this fork from source

With Go 1.16 or newer

cd /
go install github.com/junkblocker/codesearch/cmd/...@latest

Historical content

• Old releases https://github.com/junkblocker/codesearch-pre-github/releases

• Old fork pre-"Google on Github" days https://github.com/junkblocker/codesearch-pre-github

• Original Google codesearch README extract

Code Search is a tool for indexing and then performing
regular expression searches over large bodies of source code.
It is a set of command-line programs written in Go.
Binary downloads are available for those who do not have Go installed.
See https://github.com/google/codesearch.

For background and an overview of the commands,
see http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp4.html.

To install:

    go get github.com/google/codesearch/cmd/...

Use "go get -u" to update an existing installation.

Russ Cox
rsc@swtch.com
June 2015