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I personally use the silver searcher[0], also known as ag, which is .gitignore aware and I find quite quick and useful. In fact, ag references git-grep in its

by euank 13y ago

I personally use the silver searcher[0], also known as ag, which is .gitignore aware and I find quite quick and useful. In fact, ag references git-grep in its readme while this blogpost makes no mention of ag. I suspect the author just doesn't know about ag or doesn't want to install an additional less-standard package... I personally find it worth the installation. [0]: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

malandrew 13y ago
There's also an .agignore file which can be in your project folder or in your home directory for systemwide ignores.
davidgerard 13y ago
Yep, just came here to note ag. ag is fantastic and I have it installed everywhere I might need to grep a tree that's not in git. (ag's author notes that git grep is usually faster, if you're lucky enough to in fact be grepping a git repo.)
justinmk 13y ago
> I suspect the author just doesn't know about ag Actually, the author uses Windows, and ag is a pain to build on Windows. pt[1] (written in go) has drop-in builds for Windows, Mac, and Linux. [1] https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher
- ggreer 13y ago
  The main reason for poor windows support is that I didn't own a copy of windows until two months ago. There is a windows fork of ag, but it doesn't compile on *nix: https://github.com/kjk/the_silver_searcher https://github.com/kjk/the_silver_searcher That said, pt is pretty cool. If that's what works for you, keep using it.
  - pmelendez 13y ago
    Thanks for that... I am a big fan of ag at work but I had trouble making it work on cygwin at home. This should solve that problem :)
js2 13y ago
This post was written in Aug 2011. I believe ag wasn't publicly released till Dec 2011. http://geoff.greer.fm/2011/12/27/the-silver-searcher-better-than-ack/ http://geoff.greer.fm/2011/12/27/the-silver-searcher-better-...

by euank 13y ago

malandrew 13y ago

There's also an .agignore file which can be in your project folder or in your home directory for systemwide ignores.

davidgerard 13y ago

Yep, just came here to note ag. ag is fantastic and I have it installed everywhere I might need to grep a tree that's not in git. (ag's author notes that git grep is usually faster, if you're lucky enough to in fact be grepping a git repo.)

justinmk 13y ago

> I suspect the author just doesn't know about ag Actually, the author uses Windows, and ag is a pain to build on Windows. pt[1] (written in go) has drop-in builds for Windows, Mac, and Linux. [1] https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher

ggreer 13y ago
The main reason for poor windows support is that I didn't own a copy of windows until two months ago. There is a windows fork of ag, but it doesn't compile on *nix: https://github.com/kjk/the_silver_searcher https://github.com/kjk/the_silver_searcher That said, pt is pretty cool. If that's what works for you, keep using it.
- pmelendez 13y ago
  Thanks for that... I am a big fan of ag at work but I had trouble making it work on cygwin at home. This should solve that problem :)

js2 13y ago

This post was written in Aug 2011. I believe ag wasn't publicly released till Dec 2011. http://geoff.greer.fm/2011/12/27/the-silver-searcher-better-than-ack/ http://geoff.greer.fm/2011/12/27/the-silver-searcher-better-...