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In general I think that's very good advice. In this particular instance however a dumb old grep might be superior because it could catch potential security vuln
by simias 7y ago
In general I think that's very good advice. In this particular instance however a dumb old grep might be superior because it could catch potential security vulnerabilities that are not explicitly hardcoded in the source code by greping through the compilation artifacts for instance. Sure you'll get a bunch of false positives that way but at least you know that nothing is slipping through the cracks.
- burntsushi 7y agoTo be clear, you can disable all smart filtering in ripgrep. e.g., `rg -uuu foo` should be equivalent to `grep -r foo`. And if you want to exhaustively search binary files, then you need to add the `-a` flag to both commands.