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…of this design idea, but maybe some HN person knows of an existing solution along these lines. [1] https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/978 [2] https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/pull/981

comment by cb321 · 2020-12-02 · in Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz

…work required to make this nice. The --pre flag is just a small hook. More info on it here: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/GUIDE.md#p...

comment by burntsushi · 2020-12-02 · in Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz

…I've also re-run my original set of benchmarks[1] with ugrep included: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/benchsuite... [1] - https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/

comment by burntsushi · 2020-12-02 · in Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz

As a counterpoint, ripgrep is good and serious and the only grep I ever use if I can help it. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

comment by saila · 2020-11-03 · in Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in your terminal

…projects doesn't mean that copyleft isn't itself a barrier to use in other circumstances. [1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/COPYING [2] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/byteorder/issues/26

comment by burntsushi · 2020-10-30 · in Software licensing and my opposition to copyleft

It's ripgrep https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

comment by ivanche · 2020-10-23 · in YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

comment by stalled · 2020-10-23 · in YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

…for no reason[0][1] and currently uses none of its configurable features except suggestions[2]. [0] https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/commit/c8e755f11f31b6d... [1] https://github.com/clap-rs/clap/commit/739e7048a50d14023ef9e... [2]…

comment by csnover · 2020-10-04 · in Rust Starter Kit 2020

…they want. In short, a good UI can be a complex beast even if it's only a text interface. [0]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

comment by ChrisSD · 2020-10-03 · in Rust Starter Kit 2020

…intended to be POSIX compatible. It would have been a straight-jacket over its functionality. See: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/FAQ.md#pos... > As for RG and AG. other than being faster, how are they better? For…

comment by burntsushi · 2020-08-22 · in Moreutils – Unix tools that nobody thought to write (2012)

…It became such a problem that I specifically put a call-out to it in my bug report template: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/.github/IS... Snap has been hugely annoying on multiple axis since day 1.

comment by burntsushi · 2020-08-13 · in Why is there only one Snap Store?

doesn't look like it: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep#installation

comment by boogies · 2020-08-13 · in Why is there only one Snap Store?

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

comment by The_rationalist · 2020-07-23 · in Why GNU grep is fast (2010)

>IRC/Slack/Discord already exist There's a discussion feature on beta (see https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/discussions for example) I'd definitely like this to become public soon

comment by asicsp · 2020-06-17 · in GitHub isn't fun anymore

…a file in a directory tree, but has revolutionised my history use with its fuzzy matching. [0] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep [1] - https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

comment by 0xADEADBEE · 2020-06-09 · in Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer?

In the same vein as silver searcher, I'd mention ripgrep: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

comment by lucianbr · 2020-06-09 · in Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer?

…still get instant startup. Ripgrep is one of the most popular Rust CLI tools. It has ~2MB binaries: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases (except the windows GNU variant which is 8MB for some reason, but a ~2MB windows MSVC…

comment by nicoburns · 2020-05-28 · in Rust is not a good C replacement (2019)

ripgrep can actually do this seamlessly with its preprocessors: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/b72ad8f8aa897191c...

comment by burntsushi · 2020-05-19 · in WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of the web

Throw in those, + fd[0] and rg[1] 0: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd 1: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

comment by jdxcode · 2020-05-03 · in Re: Integrating "safe" languages into OpenBSD? (2017)

…than Unix-style globs), or to just implement its own globbing. There is a ticket tracking it: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/234 I've done a lot of work to make ripgrep work well on Windows. But haven't done this. You can…

comment by burntsushi · 2020-04-22 · in If you use GNU grep on text files, use the -a (--text) option

shoutout to [RipGrep]( https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep ), which is generally faster, has more intelligent defaults (searches cwd by default, ignores files matching .gitignore), and can search through only certain text files (like…

comment by the_jeremy · 2020-04-21 · in If you use GNU grep on text files, use the -a (--text) option

…of software expertise, is to make what I consider to be "easy" be as much output as possible. [0]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

comment by robenkleene · 2020-04-17 · in Customizing Your Shell

…that says it "aims to kill grep"? That definitely wasn't my intention. grep still has a place. See https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/FAQ.md#int... and https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/FAQ.md#can...

comment by burntsushi · 2020-04-10 · in SIMD instructions

Right, yes. It's a common enough mistake that it has its own FAQ entry now. :-) https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/FAQ.md#int...

comment by burntsushi · 2020-04-10 · in SIMD instructions

More context: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/1488

comment by burntsushi · 2020-03-24 · in Show HN: Harness the power of hyperscan on the CLI with this fork of ripgrep

Some `ripgrep` vs. `grep` performance comparisons (mine) here. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/113#issuecommen...

comment by vstuart · 2020-03-19 · in Fast Searching with Ripgrep

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story by jayflux · 2020-03-16 · 0 comments

…like this to ripgrep. If folks have opinions on how it should work, I'd love to hear from you! https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/1497

comment by burntsushi · 2020-03-12 · in How Google Code Search Worked (2012)

…commit in ripgrep's history is what introduced memory map support and it used the `memmap` crate: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/commit/403bb72a4dd7152... > albeit the CPU fan noises annoy my co-workers ripgrep is happy to be told…

comment by burntsushi · 2020-03-03 · in A journey to searching Have I Been Pwned database in 49μs

…memory maps, and if they fail to open, it will fall back to a more traditional buffering strategy: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/50d2047ae2c0ce2ed... ripgrep has always had a fast traditional buffering strategy using `read`…

comment by burntsushi · 2020-03-02 · in A journey to searching Have I Been Pwned database in 49μs

…been implemented in Go or Rust, e.g. I don't think I would choose C for such a task these days. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep https://github.com/sharkdp/bat https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker https://github.com/ogham/exa…

comment by mxschumacher · 2020-02-15 · in To become a good C programmer (2011)

…should definitely keep using the silver searcher. I gave more details in a response on that issue: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/1481#issuecomme...

comment by burntsushi · 2020-02-09 · in A common mistake involving wildcards and the find command

Yeah and its also 10 times larger https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/1481

comment by svnpenn · 2020-02-09 · in A common mistake involving wildcards and the find command

…Read the man page or user guide. It's not grep, it's better and already has saner defaults. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/GUIDE.md

comment by anonsivalley652 · 2020-02-09 · in A common mistake involving wildcards and the find command

For grepping, rg is faster and saner. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep On end-user systems with fast I/O, it is usually a better use of resources to have a battery-/suspend-/reboot-aware indexing system that has path/extension…

comment by anonsivalley652 · 2020-02-09 · in A common mistake involving wildcards and the find command

Might be worth taking a look at ripgrep[1]. [1] https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

comment by bobnamob · 2020-01-30 · in Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (2014)

…Something like the silver searcher ( https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher ) or ripgrep ( https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep ) have the advantage that they have laser-focus in what they want, and designed to take advantage of…

comment by jaimebuelta · 2020-01-27 · in Performance First

…and now it looks like Rec is the next ingredient to experiment with. FZF and moreso Ripgrep https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep has been really great to add to the mix.

comment by rasengan0 · 2020-01-26 · in GNU Recutils

…replacement. Despite that, it can certainly replace grep in a wide variety of use cases. See: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/FAQ.md#pos...

comment by burntsushi · 2020-01-16 · in My C code works with -O3 but not with -O0

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story by nice-guy-coding · 2020-01-10 · 1 comment

…This look super cool. I'm a Windows guy but have been using terminal more lately with tools like https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep https://github.com/sharkdp/bat https://github.com/sharkdp/fd and they work great on Windows (plus are…

comment by mpawelski · 2020-01-09 · in Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees

Yeah so many CLI tools in Rust: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd/ https://github.com/sharkdp/bat https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep https://github.com/ogham/exa

comment by eerrt · 2020-01-09 · in Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees

…your .gitignore by default. I’ll give this a try before adding something to my .vimrc again. 1. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

comment by imjasonmiller · 2019-12-03 · in The Plain Text Project

…said, the preview window in combination with being able to browse large directories a breeze. 1 = https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

comment by dwrodri · 2019-12-02 · in Fzf: A command-line fuzzy finder

ripgrep [Discussion] Fuzzy Search https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/1053

comment by TheGrassyKnoll · 2019-08-22 · in Levenshtein Distance

…your own horn, and you saved me many hours of not waiting for searches, I'll link to ripgrep here https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

comment by JetSpiegel · 2019-08-07 · in Don’t underestimate grep-based code scanning

…was recently going through the source code to learn how to build production quality Rust apps! ( https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep )

comment by dmix · 2019-08-07 · in Don’t underestimate grep-based code scanning

…tool that has been created by leveraging Rust and it's from BurntSushi[1] who is excellent. 0: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep 1. https://github.com/BurntSushi

comment by K0nserv · 2019-08-07 · in Don’t underestimate grep-based code scanning

…by burntsushi, but especially xsv and ripgrep: xsv: https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv ripgrep: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep His code typically has extensive tests, helpful comments, and logical structure. It was fun trying to…

comment by ekidd · 2019-07-29 · in Ask HN: What are the “best” codebases that you've encountered?