Excellent Utilities: ripgrep – recursively search directories for a regex pattern

Posted by sde on Nov 26, 2019 6:11 AM EDT
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There are two main grepping utility-families: grep and ack. The former is for the plain searching and is ubiquitous. The latter offers smart searching, meaning it knows what files should be filtered out. ripgrep is a hybrid solution that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern.

ripgrep is written in the Rust programming language.

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