alias rg="rg -uuu" That will disable all smart filtering and make it behave more like `grep -r`. Defaults matter and a lot of folks appreciate them, including

alias rg="rg -uuu" That will disable all smart filtering and make it behave more like `grep -r`. Defaults matter and a lot of folks appreciate them, including plenty of old Unix greybeards that I've talked to about it. (I used plain grep myself for well over ten years before writing ripgrep.) But the defaults don't need to pin you down. They can be disabled very easily. :)