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The Silver Searcher, or ag: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher Designed as a replacement for all of th

by _yy 11y ago

The Silver Searcher, or ag: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher Designed as a replacement for all of the use cases of Ack. Is even faster.

gedsic 11y ago
* The command name is 33% shorter than ack, and all keys are on the home row! Sold!
sirn 11y ago
There's also The Platinum Searcher (pt) which add support for searching SHIFT_JIS and EUC-JP files and about as fast as ag. https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher
tobiaswk 11y ago
This one is fast. Really fast. It even better than ack. This is very useful on large codebases.
ggreer 11y ago
I'll engage in some expectation management: ag doesn't cover all uses of Ack. I made ag because I loved Ack, but it wasn't fast enough for my needs. For the features of Ack that I use, ag is interchangeable. For features I don't use... not so much. Also, since the release of Ack 2.0, some behaviors and command line options have differed slightly. If you want to know why ag is so fast, there's a summary in the GitHub README.[1] I've also written a few blog posts on the subject.[2] 1. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher#how-is-it-so-fast https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher#how-is-it-so-f... 2. http://geoff.greer.fm/ag/#related-posts http://geoff.greer.fm/ag/#related-posts
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- jzzskijj 11y ago
  I'll take this opportunity to thank you for this productivity enhancing great piece of software!
jonathonf 11y ago
I'm not sure how valid the comparison benchmark is: Ack and Ag found the same results, but Ag was 34x faster (3.2 seconds vs 110 seconds). My ~/code directory is about 8GB. Thanks to git/hg/svn-ignore, Ag only searched 700MB of that. Searching less data definitely is going to take less time!
- majewsky 11y ago
  Ack uses the same git/hg/svn-ignore heuristic.

by _yy 11y ago

The Silver Searcher, or ag: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher Designed as a replacement for all of the use cases of Ack. Is even faster.

gedsic 11y ago

* The command name is 33% shorter than ack, and all keys are on the home row! Sold!

sirn 11y ago

There's also The Platinum Searcher (pt) which add support for searching SHIFT_JIS and EUC-JP files and about as fast as ag. https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher

tobiaswk 11y ago

This one is fast. Really fast. It even better than ack. This is very useful on large codebases.

ggreer 11y ago

I'll engage in some expectation management: ag doesn't cover all uses of Ack. I made ag because I loved Ack, but it wasn't fast enough for my needs. For the features of Ack that I use, ag is interchangeable. For features I don't use... not so much. Also, since the release of Ack 2.0, some behaviors and command line options have differed slightly. If you want to know why ag is so fast, there's a summary in the GitHub README.[1] I've also written a few blog posts on the subject.[2] 1. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher#how-is-it-so-fast https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher#how-is-it-so-f... 2. http://geoff.greer.fm/ag/#related-posts http://geoff.greer.fm/ag/#related-posts

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jzzskijj 11y ago
I'll take this opportunity to thank you for this productivity enhancing great piece of software!

jonathonf 11y ago

I'm not sure how valid the comparison benchmark is: Ack and Ag found the same results, but Ag was 34x faster (3.2 seconds vs 110 seconds). My ~/code directory is about 8GB. Thanks to git/hg/svn-ignore, Ag only searched 700MB of that. Searching less data definitely is going to take less time!

majewsky 11y ago
Ack uses the same git/hg/svn-ignore heuristic.