ugly little tool to search DCSS vaults
a bit buggy at this point, also needs to be rethought --- currently it does searches in a "streaming" fashion which means it has order dependencies and does not handle searching multiple bins for multiple things very well.
vaultgrep [-a|--and|-o|--or]
[--[no-][feature|monster|item] [--property=tag] [--branch=place]
pattern ...
Currently assumes you're in a source tree, or otherwise uses a fixed location that is only valid on some (not all) of my machines >.>
A recent example (that caused me to dig this back out and clean it up a bit...): someone was looking for the Ely altar vault with a neutral quokka. The and/or stuff doesn't mix well with the current "streaming" design, but there aren't that many vaults with neutral quokkas:
pyanfar «vaultgrep:master» Z$ vaultgrep --monster neutral quokka
altar/overflow.des:530: [elyvilon_altar_4] MONS: patrolling quokka att:good_neutral
Note that using this does assume some familiarity with
vault syntax.
Also note that --monster/--feature/--item controls what fields it looks
in, so there are useful but strange-looking queries like
vaultgrep --monster "giant spiked club"
to find a vault with a monster wielding that weapon. (At the moment, you may want to filter that through regular grep.)