How grep through your staged files prior to committing?

Question

So prior to running git commit I often will run the following:

git grep --cached -l -I \"debugger\"

I thought it was similar to:

Answer 1

If you have a Unix-like shell available, the answer is pretty simple:

git grep --cached "debugger" $(git diff --cached --name-only)

This will run git grep on the list of staged files.