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…[3]: https://github.com/p-ranav/hypergrep/blob/ee85b713aa84e0050a... [4]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/FAQ.md#why... [5]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/rebar/blob/96c6779b7e1cdd850b8...

comment by burntsushi · 2023-12-31 · in Ugrep – a more powerful, fast, user-friendly, compatible grep

…It took 86 seconds to index a Linux kernel tree, while csearch's cindex tool took 8 seconds. [1] https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/1497

comment by comex · 2023-12-30 · in Ugrep – a more powerful, fast, user-friendly, compatible grep

…account the things BurntSushi (ripgrep author) pointed out in the ripgrep issue link elsewhere ITT? https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/discussions/2597 Either way, ripgrep is awesome and I’m staying with it.

comment by codetrotter · 2023-12-30 · in Ugrep – a more powerful, fast, user-friendly, compatible grep

Here's a thread on performance vs rg (ripgrep). https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/discussions/2597 didn't know about hypergrep either.

comment by graphe · 2023-12-30 · in Ugrep – a more powerful, fast, user-friendly, compatible grep

…from one of my projects, where you can clearly see that not every commit has a green checkmark: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/commits/master/ I run dozens of projects this way. I've never had a major issue because it just isn't a…

comment by burntsushi · 2023-12-30 · in The merge vs. rebase debate

Never will be: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/FAQ.md#pos... If you need drop-in compatibility with grep, then use grep. :-)

comment by burntsushi · 2023-11-30 · in Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)

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RFC: Add ngram indexing support to ripgrep (2020)

story by tosh · 2023-11-30 · 2 comments

…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...

comment by burntsushi · 2023-11-30 · in Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)

…standard grep format and it doesn't interact nicely with contextual options like -C/--context. See: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/875

comment by burntsushi · 2023-11-30 · in Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)

…All of those things apply to me too.) With respect to compatibility, see my FAQ on the topic: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/FAQ.md#pos...

comment by burntsushi · 2023-11-30 · in Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)

…people forget the qgrep option." YMMV. I have flirted with the idea of adding indexing to ripgrep: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/1497 > this above all true UNLESS you need multi-line matches with UTF8, where ripgrep is not…

comment by burntsushi · 2023-11-30 · in Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)

The shell function from this comment works pretty well for me: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/152#issuecommen...

comment by gkfasdfasdf · 2023-11-27 · in Ripgrep 14 Released

…can't make --sort-files _free_ in multi-core mode, but it would still be faster than single-core) https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/152

comment by piinbinary · 2023-11-26 · in Ripgrep 14 Released

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story by tosh · 2023-11-13 · 0 comments

…nice. I install it everywhere now. I'm curious (like others here) how `rak` is better than `rg`. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

comment by cies · 2023-11-02 · in App::Rak – 21st century grep / find / ack / ag / rg on steroids

…It will be in the next release. If you want this in your ripgrep, then `cargo install --git https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep ripgrep` should do the trick. (Add `--features pcre2` if you want that.) Second is that this make ripgrep…

comment by burntsushi · 2023-08-29 · in Ripgrep now twice as fast on Apple Silicon with new aarch64 SIMD implementations

…ripgrep is written in Rust and works really well and "does one thing", so I'll go to its repo ( https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep ) and read through a bit. First, I'm looking for a "src" folder, but that does not exist, so right off…

comment by PennRobotics · 2023-08-28 · in C++ Papercuts

…it by looking at version numbers when the projects aren't using the same versioning scheme. [1]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/CHANGELOG....

comment by burntsushi · 2023-08-22 · in Be careful of the examples you use. They stick

…it not being a drop-in replacement being a mistake suggests you're totally missing the point. See: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/FAQ.md#pos... The goal isn't "C++ has to literally die." That's just dumb. It is not going…

comment by burntsushi · 2023-07-15 · in Tell HN: Rust is the superglue

…[1]. Or ripgrep [2] instead of grep. sd [3] instead of sed. [1]: https://github.com/ogham/exa [2]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep [3]: https://github.com/chmln/sd

comment by alwillis · 2023-06-28 · in macOS command-line tools you might not know about

A fun fact, ripgrep used docopt for arg parsing in its original release: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/b1c52b52d6eed5b24... I switched to Clap pretty quickly after the initial release though. Like a couple months:…

comment by burntsushi · 2023-06-28 · in Ask HN: Why did Nim not catch on like Rust did?

This should suffice? https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

comment by paraselene_ · 2023-06-23 · in Do you know how much your computer can do in a second? (2015)

…https://github.com/jeremyevans/sequel/ * Sidekiq https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq Rust * ripgrep https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep Scala * fs2 (ex of good type safety) https://github.com/typelevel/fs2 * monix (ex of ugly code with…

comment by culi · 2023-06-17 · in Ask HN: What are some of the most elegant codebases in your favorite language?

…than 16ms), although I only have 10k entries on my history as I clear it up once in a while. [0]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep [1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

comment by doodlesdev · 2023-05-25 · in Cases where full scans are better than indexes

…"unescape" routine. e.g., converting the string 'a\xFF\t' to the byte sequence 0x61 0xFF 0x09: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/44fb9fce2c1ee1a86...

comment by burntsushi · 2023-03-14 · in Switching from C++ to Rust

…in replacements. Some examples are - ls => exa ( https://github.com/ogham/exa ) - grep => ripgrep ( https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep ) - cat => bat ( https://github.com/sharkdp/bat ) - tree => broot ( https://github.com/Canop/broot )…

comment by nindalf · 2023-03-02 · in Bsdutils: Alternative to GNU coreutils using software from FreeBSD

…"more intuitive du" - tldr github.com/tldr-pages/tldr-python-client tldr client in python - ripgrep github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep This constitutes the "great" tools, there are more that are "good"

comment by xrayarx · 2023-02-20 · in The Most Useful Command Line Tools (2023 Edition)

…- etc Forgot to add zoxide [0] and ripgrep [1]. [0] https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide [1] https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

comment by jnsaff2 · 2023-02-09 · in Ask HN: Are alternative (oil, nu, etc.) shells usable as daily drivers?

…compiled it with both Rust 1.20 (from ~5.5 years ago) and Rust 1.67 (just released): $ git clone https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep $ cd ripgrep $ git checkout 0.8.0 $ time cargo +1.20.0 build --release real 34.367 user 1:07.36 sys…

comment by burntsushi · 2023-02-03 · in Improving Rust compile times to enable adoption of memory safety

…for time I did neither. [1] https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_gnugrep_ripgrep/ripgr... [2] https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

comment by defrost · 2023-01-16 · in Awk: Power and Promise of a 40 yr old language (2021)

…modules/microservices. For searching multiple files, ripgrep works really well in neovim :) [1] https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

comment by surprisetalk · 2023-01-03 · in Modules, not microservices

…run some tests on that and get back to you in an hour or so. I'll use the same tests you have on https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/benchsuite... My testing will be on my Dev VM, in a WSL container on ubuntu 22.04, targeting…

comment by maldev · 2022-12-10 · in How I got involved in the Rust community

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep https://github.com/rust-lang/hashbrown https://github.com/briansmith/ring https://github.com/rust-random/rand Lot of Rust programmers also coming from C, C++, and Go btw.

comment by mcqueenjordan · 2022-12-09 · in Data-driven performance optimization with Rust and Miri

…as a paid product, especially with a subscription model. [0] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf [1] https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep [2] https://github.com/tmux/tmux [3] https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij [4]…

comment by _andrei_ · 2022-12-09 · in Telemetry is now optional in Warp

…[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_knowledge_base [3] https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

comment by eevmanu · 2022-11-30 · in Ask HN: Bookmarks for Hacker News?

…Modern sed: https://github.com/chmln/sd Modern grep: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

comment by petepete · 2022-11-07 · in Being Ridiculed for My Open Source Project (2013)

…curating the commits in order to make them meaningful. Here's an example of this from the wild: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/pull/350#issuecomment-... BurntSushi (the project maintainer) didn't care about the story the commits…

comment by thunky · 2022-11-03 · in Git commit messages are useless

…of their own experience) opinion of your HN peers? Well, that's what you got. Live with it. [1]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/tag/13.0.0

comment by burntsushi · 2022-10-20 · in “You meant to install ripgrep”

…Feel free to abuse my competence or, you know, link it in the discussion? Actually I'll do it. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/README.md There. That feels better doesn't it? More quirks you have to learn is not less. You…

comment by harry8 · 2022-10-19 · in “You meant to install ripgrep”

…useful. There's even a huge sign with only 12 words pithily explaining what the shop has inside. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

comment by burntsushi · 2022-10-18 · in “You meant to install ripgrep”

A grep alternative that optimizes for performance: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep . There are detailed performance comparisons and discussions in the readme there.

comment by kibwen · 2022-10-17 · in “You meant to install ripgrep”

…will respect gitignore rules and automatically skip hidden files/directories and binary files." https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

comment by debacle · 2022-10-17 · in “You meant to install ripgrep”

ripgrep by BurntSushi ( https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep )

comment by omn1 · 2022-09-10 · in Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read?

…any threat to Adobe shows that it takes way more than a handful of skilled devs. > Copies of grep https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep started in 2016 and went stable in 2019. It's not being sold as a SaaS subscription because why would…

comment by 3np · 2022-08-28 · in Time Till Open Source Alternative

Seems like ripgrep would be the optimal tool for this job. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

comment by KMnO4 · 2022-08-15 · in Ask HN: Can I see your scripts?

This is actually how glob matching is currently implemented in ripgrep: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/a9d97a1dda0a07a8e... Works quite well because it can take advantage of the host of optimizations inside the regex engine.

comment by burntsushi · 2022-08-12 · in Rob Pike's simple C regex matcher in Go

…then 'grep' is a fine choice. Indeed, I still use 'grep' for precisely that purpose. See: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/FAQ.md#pos...

comment by burntsushi · 2022-07-25 · in Why GNU grep is fast (2010)

Can ripgrep replace grep? Nope. See: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/FAQ.md#pos... What does the "rip" in ripgrep mean? Not "rest in peace." See: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/FAQ.md#wha... If you only…

comment by burntsushi · 2022-07-25 · in Why GNU grep is fast (2010)

…a text search tool (ripgrep) in pure Rust instead of using PCRE bindings. Look at the benchmarks ( https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/benchsuite... ) - it’s faster than any competing tool on nearly all of them. If you’ve…

comment by nindalf · 2022-06-23 · in Linus Torvalds: Rust for the Kernel Could Possibly Be Merged for Linux 5.20