Global search: List each file only once

Created March 13, 2017 09:50

I often do global search when working on code that someone else wrote to find in which files things are.

For this purpose, I don't care if the string occurs once or 100 times in a file, I just want the file names.

However, PHPStorm shows max 100 results and if 1 file has the string 100 times, this same file will take up 100 lines in the search results, blocking out other files from showing.

This is not very useful. I couldn't find an option such as "list each file only once".

Does this option exist?

I could do a recursive grep on the terminal for the same purpose, but I would really like if this was part of PHPStorm.

1 comment

Andriy Bazanov

Created March 13, 2017 14:46

Hi there,

Yes and No.

No -- there is no such dedicated option.

But yes -- you can collapse all results and then expand so you will see only list of files

You can merge usage from the same line so it will be reported as one line (and not as multiple lines) -- (multiple lines with arrow down to single line icon)
You can disable grouping by Directory (folder in brackets kind of icon) -- so it will be a flat file list
You can disable grouping by Usage Type (blue funnel icon) -- so all results will be in single branch

In the end you can have something like this:

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