grep_count: grep_count: Efficiently count the number of relevant records from one or more files using grep

Description

grep_count: Efficiently count the number of relevant records from one or more files using grep

Usage

grep_count(
  files = NULL,
  path = NULL,
  file_pattern = NULL,
  pattern = "",
  invert = FALSE,
  ignore_case = FALSE,
  fixed = FALSE,
  recursive = FALSE,
  word_match = FALSE,
  only_matching = FALSE,
  skip = 0,
  header = TRUE,
  include_filename = FALSE,
  show_cmd = FALSE,
  show_progress = FALSE,
  ...
)

Value

A data.table containing file names and counts.

Arguments

files: Character vector of file paths to read.
path: Optional. Directory path to search for files.
file_pattern: Optional. A pattern to filter filenames when using the path argument. Passed to list.files.
pattern: Pattern to search for within files (passed to grep).
invert: Logical; if TRUE, return non-matching lines.
ignore_case: Logical; if TRUE, perform case-insensitive matching (default: TRUE).
fixed: Logical; if TRUE, pattern is a fixed string, not a regular expression.
recursive: Logical; if TRUE, search recursively through directories.
word_match: Logical; if TRUE, match only whole words.
only_matching: Logical; if TRUE, return only the matching part of the lines.
skip: Integer; number of rows to skip.
header: Logical; if TRUE, treat first row as header.
include_filename: Logical; if TRUE, include source filename as a column.
show_cmd: Logical; if TRUE, return the grep command string instead of executing it.
show_progress: Logical; if TRUE, show progress indicators.
...: Additional arguments passed to fread.