Is there a way to print out filename and line number separated by colon?

[rossmacarthur]

Currently the default output shows the filenames and then each case listed underneath. Using rg -l prints out only the line numbers, but what I would like is something like the following:

path/to/file:107
path/to/file:120
path/to/other/file:83

[BurntSushi]

Currently the default output shows the filenames and then each case listed underneath.

You can switch to the standard grep output format with --no-heading.

Using rg -l prints out only the line numbers

It does not. It prints matching file paths and the number of matching lines. It prints just the matching file paths. If you combine it with -c/--count, then it also includes the number of matching lines.

but what I would like is something like the following

Well, that's what ripgrep does with the --no-heading flag, with the exception of also printing the matching contents. So you just have to get rid of the matching contents. Here are a few ways to do that, given a query of foo:

# Requires modifying the pattern to match the entire line
$ rg '^.*(foo).*$' --no-heading -r ''

# Always works, except when a file path contains a colon.
$ rg 'fn is_empty' --no-heading --line-number | cut -d':' -f1-2

You could probably also do something with the --json flag and jq.

[rossmacarthur]

Thanks so much 🙏

It does not. It prints matching file paths and the number of matching lines.

Woops, I meant it only prints out the paths.

Well, that's what ripgrep does with the --no-heading flag,

I must have missed this in the --help. This is sufficient for my use case (I want to be able to ⌘+Click in my editor terminal to open that location)

[BurntSushi]

Woops, I meant it only prints out the paths.

Ah right. My bad. The --count flag will include line match counts.

[MrBrN197]

So you just have to get rid of the matching contents. Here are a few ways to do that,

anyone seeing this after; there is also the -o/--only-matching

[lwestby-chwy]

You can definitely do it with jq. Just pass -s so it encloses the objects output by rg --json into an array, then query:

 rg --json "foo" file | jq -s '(.[] | select(.type == "match").data.line_number)'

[taliastocks]

You need to add -n to keep the line number when you pipe the output of rg now.

[BurntSushi]

I think this issue is talking about the -l/--files-with-matches flag. In that case, -n/--line-number has no effect. You need the -c/--count flag to show the number of matches next to each matching file path.