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rg => (ripgrep) alternative to ack and grep.
by sairamkunala 8y ago
rg => (ripgrep) alternative to ack and grep.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 8y agoThere’s also ag (the silver searcher)
- boyter 8y agoI must confess based on the strength of the argument buruntsushi had with the Ripgrep comparison I switched from ag to rg and have not looked back. I was a daily ag user but I don’t need the advanced regex support and I do like the speed.
- sshine 8y agoI love how command-line tools are seeing the same explosion of choices as web-frameworks. I changed to 'ack' six months ago after having used 'grep' for two decades, and already its successor 'ag' has been made redundant in favor of 'rg'. My only peeve with 'ack' is that I can't make it switch nicely between paging and not paging: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50135983/less-waits-when-ack-takes-time-to-finish https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50135983/less-waits-when... I doubt any of 'ack's competitors have a fix for this, since it seems to be a pager feature that I'm looking for.