I have the following branches:

dependabot/npm_and_yarn/types/jest-28.1.3
dependabot/pip/django-environ-0.9.0
test-dependabot/test

I want to grep the first two branches:

dependabot/npm_and_yarn/types/jest-28.1.3
dependabot/pip/django-environ-0.9.0

I've tried the following solutions but no luck:

• git branch | grep dependabot/ - grabs all 3 branches
• git branch | grep ^dependabot/ - grabs no branches

What is the correct grep regex for this use case? The string start character ^ doesn't seem to be working correctly here?

CodePudding user response：

Check with a leading space before your branch name (you can have a leading * if it is the current branch)

git branch|grep "\s\ dependabot/"

More formal a line starting with an optional * then one or several spaces before your branch name

git branch|grep "^\*\?\s\ dependabot/"

CodePudding user response：

You may use this git grep:

git branch | grep '^[*[:blank:]]*dependabot/'

[[:blank:]]* matches 0 or more whitespaces or * after matching line start with ^