Global Search file content in Gitlab repositories, search across repositories, search across all files

How Global Search file content in Gitlab repositories(search across repositories)?

There is an existing answer to it, we can file the source code here  https://github.com/phillipj/gitlab-search

Yes, that's a Gitlab solution sit in Github :-)    maybe you can find Github solutions/features in Gitlab repository too

Steps for Mac:

1. Install the tool by npm in Terminal

   1. npm install -g gitlab-search

      After installation success, it make sense to prepare a GitLab access token now

2. Create a GitLab personal access token

   1. https://gitlab.com/-/profile/personal_access_tokens
   2. Note: Make sure check-on 'read_api'

      Grants read access to the API, including all groups and projects, the container registry, and the package registry.

   3. or Select ALL;  We can see all the existing token under: Active personal access tokens (*)
   4. Got token(Your new personal access token) like: _avcPZb6sd4sUWXe3***

3. Setup gitlab-search

   1. gitlab-search setup _avcPZb6sd4sUWXe3***

   2. Successfully wrote config to .gitlabsearchrc, gitlab-search is now ready to be used

4. Usage sample:

   1. Search File content:

   2. gitlab-search functionabc

This's a useful tool to globally search file content in gitlab repositories, enjoy it.