I guess some might say that tools like this shouldn’t have built-in recursive mode (or am I making this up) since you can use xargs(1). But in my experience tha

I guess some might say that tools like this shouldn’t have built-in recursive mode (or am I making this up) since you can use xargs(1). But in my experience that is very painful for an interactive tool. For some reason I haven’t tried ripgrep yet but I do use `git grep` a lot (which also lets you recurse). git-grep will also let you use “pathspecs” which is a kind of built-in functionality for things like globbing.