### Please describe the problem. inability to quickly grep locally present files ### What steps will reproduce the problem? run "git annex grep" > i don't understand this request. just running `grep` will grep all the locally present files: sure there will be warnings, but you can use `2>/dev/null` to silence those. as for the suggested solution in comment, that greps for the filenames. please clarify the feature request here or this is [[invalid|done]]. --[[anarcat]] >> The reason `git grep` exists is partly speed (git objects can >> sometimes be read more efficiently than traversing the fileststem), >> and partly the ability to grep a whole tree of source code, but >> avoid grepping build artifacts, etc. The former reason doesn't apply >> with git-annex. The latter reason applies somewhat, but it's much less >> common to want to grep large binary files than it is to want to grep a >> source tree. `git annex find` can be fed to `grep` when one wants to do >> that. So I don't see a compelling case to add this to git-annex. >> --[[Joey]]