ripgrep
Ripgrep is a line-oriented command line tool that searches for regex patterns in the current directory as recursive. It obeys gitignore rules by default and automatically excludes hidden files and binary files. Windows offers direct support on macOS and Linux operating systems.
ripgrep
100BurntSushi · Modern CLI & Rust Tools
- Search for regex patterns recursively in files in the current folder
- You search by automatically excluding hidden files and binary files
- Filtering project files in accordance with Gitignore rules
- • NeutralHacker News
Ripgrep – A new command line search tool
“I did a brief performance comparison with icgrep here: --- Yes, it does a little better on things like \p{Greek} (and has even better Unicode support than ripgrep) but is missing literal optimizations, which are a ridiculously common case for search tools like this. (As you…”
- • NeutralHacker News
Ripgrep – A new command line search tool
“Running the same tests on our test machine, I am seeing dramatically different performance results. Our test machine has AVX2, but this can't be the whole story. cameron@cs-osl-10:~/ripgrep/datadir/subtitles$ time rg '\w+ Holmes|\w+ Watson|\w+ Adler|\w+ Moriarty|\w+ Lestrade'…”
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