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This is from 2017. In 2020 I personally use ag 99% of the time, and when I do use grep is because its options are burned in my brain and it saves me 30 seconds

This is from 2017. In 2020 I personally use ag 99% of the time, and when I do use grep is because its options are burned in my brain and it saves me 30 seconds by not looking up the equivalent for ag. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

jki275 6y ago
Of course, and I use ag when I’m searching source code as well. But ag isn’t a drop in replacement for grep, and when you have tooling that’s depends on that, replacing it simply isn’t a viable option.