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ripgrep isn't POSIX compliant. It's hardly a proper replacement.
by boomer_joe 7y ago
ripgrep isn't POSIX compliant. It's hardly a proper replacement.
- burntsushi 7y agoRight, it is intentionally not POSIX compliant. This saves fairly significant development effort and also permits expanding the tool to be more user friendly, such as transparently searching UTF-16 encoded files. ripgrep cannot be a drop-in replacement. Despite that, it can certainly replace grep in a wide variety of use cases. See: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/FAQ.md#posix4ever https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/FAQ.md#pos...