Ripgrep is faster than {grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift}

• ripgrep

  350 45,287 9.3 Rust

  ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

No. Cargo does. The `build.rs` is basically a Cargo hook that gets compiled as a Rust program and executed just before the ripgrep binary is compiled. It lets you do things like set linker flags[1] so that you can embed an XML manifest into the binary on Windows to enable "long path support."

ripgrep's build.rs used to do more, like build shell completions and the man page. But that's now part of ripgrep proper. e.g., `rg --generate man` writes roff to stdout.

[1]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/2a4dba3fbfef944c5...

[2]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/2a4dba3fbfef944c5...

• aho-corasick

  21 955 7.2 Rust

  A fast implementation of Aho-Corasick in Rust.

Oh I see. Yes, that's what is commonly used in academic publications. But I've yet to see it used in the wild.

I mentioned exactly that paper (I believe) in my write-up on Teddy: https://github.com/BurntSushi/aho-corasick/tree/master/src/p...

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• ugrep

  24 2,462 9.1 C++

  NEW ugrep 6.0: a more powerful, ultra fast, user-friendly, compatible grep. Includes a TUI, Google-like Boolean search with AND/OR/NOT, fuzzy search, hexdumps, searches (nested) archives (zip, 7z, tar, pax, cpio), compressed files (gz, Z, bz2, lzma, xz, lz4, zstd, brotli), pdfs, docs, and more

  

I switched from from ripgrep to ugrep and never looked back. It's just as fast, but also comes with fuzzy matching (which is super useful), a TUI (useful for code reviews), and can also search in PDFs, archives, etc.

The optional Google search syntax also very convenient.

https://ugrep.com

• mpv

  830 26,191 9.9 C

  🎥 Command line video player

  

Author of ripgrep here.

Like automatic encoding detection and transparently searching UTF-16?

Or simple ways for composing character classes, e.g., `[\pL&&\p{Greek}]` for all codepoints in the Greek script that are letters. Another favorite of mine is `\P{ascii}`, which will search for any codepoint that isn't in the ASCII subset.

Or more sophisticated filtering features that let you automatically respect things like gitignore rules.

Those are all things that ripgrep does that grep does not. So I do not favor this explanation personally.

ripgrep has just about all of the functionality that GNU grep does. I would say the two biggest missing pieces at this point are:

* POSIX locale support. (But this might be a feature[1].)

* Support for "basic" regexes or some equivalent that flips the escaping rules around. i.e., You need to write `\+` to match 1 or more things, where as `+` will just match `+ literally.

Otherwise, ripgrep has unfortunately grown just about as many flags as GNU grep.

[1]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...

• ripgrep-all

  43 6,207 7.6 Rust

  rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc.

I searched in portage, and it seems there is another version working also with other documents like PDFs and doc.

https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all

• ngp2

  1 30 4.1 C

  ncurses-grep: interactively navigate grep-like results

Semi off-topic, I've coded a frontend to navigate and filter grep-like results which might be of interest to some of you: https://github.com/gquere/ngp2

• nushell

  214 30,246 9.9 Rust

  A new type of shell

  

Maybe if the "popular" shells, but http://www.nushell.sh/ is looking better and better

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• deadgrep

  11 698 5.8 Emacs Lisp

  fast, friendly searching with ripgrep and Emacs

Deadgrep (uses ripgrep and evil-collection has a binding) takes me to my happy place -

https://github.com/Wilfred/deadgrep

• fzf.vim

  157 9,432 6.6 Vim Script

  fzf :heart: vim

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.vim

And added my keyboard shortcuts.

• cs

  9 503 7.5 Go

  command line codespelunker or code search

That’s one of the reasons I made this actually https://github.com/boyter/cs

I wanted and boolean syntax mixed with fzf instant search. It’s not as fast as ripgrep of course but it’s not solving the same problem.

Suggest a related project