If you're using a recent version of bash, you could enable the 'globstar' option: $ shopt -s globstar $ git grep 'pattern' **/*.{cc,cpp,h} Does that work? On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Thiago Farina <tfransosi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey! > > How do I tell 'git grep' to search only in .cc, .cpp and .h files? > > From http://gitster.livejournal.com/27674.html it seems possible to do > some filter, but in this article grep is told to search only in C > source files. > > Bye! > > -- > Thiago Farina > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Josh Hagins College of Engineering Cornell University '14 (843) 847-6008 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html