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Tool for grepping through source code

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Introduction: what is pss?

You can think of pss as an enhanced grep designed to search inside source code files. pss is very similar to the Perl ack tool (see https://bitbucket.org/eliben/pss/wiki/PssAndAck).

Pre-requisites

pss needs only Python to run. It works with with Python versions 2.6, 2.7 and 3.2 on Linux and Windows. Some testing was done on on Mac OS X and FreeBSD as well.

Installing

When you unzip the source distribution, run:

> python setup.py install

Alternatively, pss can be installed from PyPi (Python package index):

> pip install pss

Running without installing

pss supports direct invocation even without installing it. This may be useful if you’re on a machine without administrator rights, or want to experiment with a source distribution of pss.

Just unzip the pss distribution into some directory. Let’s assume its full path is /path/to/pss. You can now run:

> /path/to/python /path/to/pss

And this will invoke pss as expected. This command can also be tied to an alias or placed in a shell (or batch) script for convenience.

How to use it?

pss is meant to be executed from the command line. Running it with no arguments or with -h will print a detailed usage message.

For some detailed usage examples, check out the Usage wiki page - https://bitbucket.org/eliben/pss/wiki/Usage.

License

pss is open-source software. Its code is in the public domain. See the LICENSE file for more details.

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