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What are the benefits of ripgrep over ag?

• burntsushi 10y ago
  ripgrep's README will tell you: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep The short version: 1. It's faster. 2. It's not just faster on code repos, it's also faster than grep itself on single files, so you can use ripgrep in lieu of both ag and grep. 3. It has Unicode support. (More importantly, its Unicode support is fast, and doesn't exhibit huge slow downs like GNU grep does.) 4. Its support for reading gitignore files is quite a bit less buggy than ag. 5. I've heard folks tell me ag was hard to install on Windows, but ripgrep provides first class support for Windows. I've never personally tried ag on Windows, so take that with a grain of salt. The (much) longer version is my blog post, which goes into a lot more detail, specifically on 1+2+3: http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/ http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/