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

334 mentions on Hacker News by 196 people: 28 stories, 306 comments · first 2016-09-23 · latest 2026-10-05

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  1. Let's do it. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/40
    comment by burntsushi · 2016-09-24 · in Ripgrep – A new command line search tool
  2. …ripgrep proper by making --no-mmap the default on Mac. :-) It should be an easy one to knock off: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/36 > not my first rodeo Right, sorry about that. :-) Just had to cover all my bases! (Also, `-j`…
    comment by burntsushi · 2016-09-23 · in Ripgrep – A new command line search tool
  3. …I then ran them another 10 times in which I recorded them. You can see the raw output here: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/benchsuite... In any case, on my underpowered Mac, here are some results on a 1.2 GB file (notice…
    comment by burntsushi · 2016-09-23 · in Ripgrep – A new command line search tool
  4. …the speed difference. What you will notice, however, are the feature differences. Take a look at https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues to get a taste of what's missing or broken. It will be some time before all those little details…
  5. …executables with musl and SIMD enabled (using target-feature=+ssse3 instead of target-cpu=native): https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases I took the flag from your blog post, thanks for pointing out the explicit feature flag. That…
  6. …executables with musl and SIMD enabled (using target-feature=+ssse3 instead of target-cpu=native): https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases
    comment by burntsushi · 2016-09-23 · in Ripgrep – A new command line search tool