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…release IIRC. ripgrep's releases do include binary debs, but there's no auto-update: $ curl -LO https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/download/0.10.0/ripgrep_0.10.0_amd64.deb $ sudo dpkg -i ripgrep_0.10.0_amd64.deb

comment by burntsushi · 2018-09-08 · in Ripgrep is faster (2016)

…if this was already mentioned on HG, but Ripgrep had a release yesterday with a few new features. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/tag/0.10.0

comment by tux1968 · 2018-09-08 · in Ripgrep is faster (2016)

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Ripgrep 0.10.0

story by tosh · 2018-09-08 · 0 comments

PCRE2 is opt-in. For performance, here's a start. :) https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/FAQ.md#pcr...

comment by burntsushi · 2018-09-07 · in Ripgrep 0.10.0 released (PCRE2 and multi-line support)

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story by burntsushi · 2018-09-07 · 22 comments

rg > all other grep tools https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

comment by thibran · 2018-08-30 · in CLI: Improved

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Ripgrep 0.9.0

story by robin_reala · 2018-08-05 · 0 comments

…in my Rust code.) [1] - https://docs.rs/ignore/0.4.2/ignore/struct.WalkParallel.html [2] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/b38b101c77003fb94... [3] - https://github.com/gvansickle/ucg/blob/master/src/libext/Dir... [4] -…

comment by burntsushi · 2018-06-26 · in Examples of Parallel Algorithms from C++17

As much as I love `ag`, I feel like ripgrep ( https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep ) deserves mentioning when it comes to speed. If you haven't tried it, do it sooner rather than later. Here's an excellent write-up on how it works,…

comment by lillesvin · 2018-06-06 · in Show HN: Grep with colours written in Go

I just use `git grep` which isn't as fast as ripgrep ( https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep ), but is still damn fast (on Windows).

comment by nailer · 2018-06-04 · in What is wrong with Microsoft buying GitHub

…- ripgrep: ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep - exa: Replacement for 'ls' written in Rust https://github.com/ogham/exa - bat: A 'cat' replacement. I recommend followi

comment by zodiac · 2018-05-07 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?

…- ripgrep: ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep - exa: Replacement for 'ls' written in Rust https://github.com/ogham/exa - bat: A 'cat' replacement. I recommend followi

comment by Dowwie · 2018-05-07 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?

…from that, some that I use time to time - curl-size https://github.com/egoist/curl-size - ripgrep https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep - jq https://github.com/stedolan/jq - asciinema https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema

comment by kamranahmed_se · 2018-05-07 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?

Ripgrep ( https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep ) It's so good and fast that it quickly has become an essential tool in my workflow.

comment by rubenbe · 2018-04-30 · in Ask HN: What are some amazing open source projects that you have found recently?

…if you want an even faster version of grep, checkout ripgrep (which happens to be written in Rust). https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

comment by Teknoman117 · 2018-04-27 · in How long does it take to linear search 200MB in memory?

…but rather, that using Vec<u8> as a string can be extremely useful in certain circumstances.) [1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/7120f3225862f6c71...

comment by burntsushi · 2018-03-13 · in Rust's 2018 roadmap

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Ripgrep 0.8.0

story by burntsushi · 2018-02-15 · 2 comments

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Ripgrep 0.8.0 released

story by burntsushi · 2018-02-12 · 0 comments

…a several hundred GB file. Now ripgrep checks if this is the case and handles it gracefully: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/pull/310

comment by NiceGuy_Ty · 2018-01-23 · in What happens when you grep the file you've redirected grep to?

The benchmark suite can be run by anyone: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/benchsuite... I re-ran them :-) https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/tree/master/benchsuite... TL;DR ripgrep has gotten faster in important areas…

comment by burntsushi · 2018-01-09 · in Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep

…link to your feature comparison table to my REAMDE[1]. Thanks again for putting it together! [1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep#feature-comparison

comment by burntsushi · 2018-01-09 · in Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep

There is more detail available in the benchmark runs at https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/tree/master/benchsuite... However, those are from 2016, and so it's hard to tell what might have changed in the meanwhile.

comment by bradknowles · 2018-01-08 · in Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep

I do wish the persistent config file enhancement had a significant chance of becoming a reality. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/196 I understand alias'es and wrappers fine, but I like having the environment have some way to…

comment by rektide · 2018-01-08 · in Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep

…other command" I really like the discussion that lead to the decision of never including a pager: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/86

comment by derwiki · 2018-01-08 · in Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep

…have a flag to enable recursive search, but surely we care about features more than flags... [1] https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep#why-should-i-use-ripgr...

comment by rozim · 2018-01-08 · in Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep

…— especially in conjunction with fzf/fzy — I'll make sure to mention the even faster rg (ripgrep): https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep BurntSushi's write-up about the internal workings of ripgrep is also super interesting:…

comment by lillesvin · 2017-12-22 · in Intermediate Vim tips

…One of mine is in the community repo. People are working on debs, but it's slow going: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/10

comment by burntsushi · 2017-12-21 · in Five years with Rust

Pretty sure that's already happening with tools like ripgrep: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

comment by vvanders · 2017-12-04 · in Integrating “safe” languages into OpenBSD?

…it runs for a long time. Edit 2: Looks like the problem in my edit is a known issue with ripgrep: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/200

comment by mason55 · 2017-10-20 · in FZF and RipGrep – Navigate with bash faster than ever before

RipGrep doesn't have some very useful PCRE features. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep#why-shouldnt-i-use-rip... If you use lookarounds (or often use grep -P), RipGrep may not cover all of your needed use cases. That said, it's very…

comment by goldfishparty · 2017-10-20 · in FZF and RipGrep – Navigate with bash faster than ever before

…Offering a compatibility mode with grep has been suggested, but is significant work. [1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/10

comment by burntsushi · 2017-10-20 · in FZF and RipGrep – Navigate with bash faster than ever before

…myself and I was completely unaware of fzf. However, I'm curious if you know `rg` (aka. ripgrep): https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep In my experience it's markedly faster than `ag` (which is markedly faster than `grep`).

comment by lillesvin · 2017-10-19 · in Vim after 15 Years

…In any case, I filed an issue[1]. I think the UX is pretty tricky to get right though. [1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/631

comment by burntsushi · 2017-10-09 · in Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find, written in Rust

…and parallel traversal should be a boon. [1] - https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server [2] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/e7c06b92fb996adcb...

comment by burntsushi · 2017-10-08 · in Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find, written in Rust

…Not for replacing those tools, but for supplementing them. Thinking of stuff like fd and: ripgrep: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep (grep/ag alt) xsv: https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv (csv tool) exa: https://the.exa.website/ (ls)…

comment by coldtea · 2017-10-08 · in Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find, written in Rust

…the speed goes to the amazing Rust modules 'ignore' and 'regex', which are also used by ripgrep ( https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep ).

comment by sharkdp · 2017-10-08 · in Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find, written in Rust

…need is generic that other users can also use, submit a PR. The developer was kind to except mine.. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/pull/107/files .. it's a trivial 1-line PR.

comment by kaushalmodi · 2017-09-14 · in Interesting commands for the Linux shell

…any case, I am very interested in this path and even have an issue on the ripgrep tracker for it: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/95 --- I'm not sure if it really belongs in ripgrep proper, but I would really love to collect…

comment by burntsushi · 2017-09-04 · in HomeBrew Analytics – top 1000 packages installed over last year

The README contains a quick breakdown: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep#quick-examples-compari... My blog post linked elsewhere goes into more detail, although I left out ack because it was too slow.

comment by burntsushi · 2017-09-04 · in HomeBrew Analytics – top 1000 packages installed over last year

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ripgrep: the raw speed of grep with the usability of the Silver Searcher

story by dfabulich · 2017-09-04 · 0 comments

…go back. Check it out if you haven't! Here is the repo and a technical breakdown by the author: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/

comment by apeace · 2017-09-04 · in HomeBrew Analytics – top 1000 packages installed over last year

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Ripgrep: the usability of the Silver Searcher with the raw speed of GNU grep

story by pmoriarty · 2017-08-30 · 0 comments

…bindings which would themselves only be JS / TS code (and might live in separate repos as well). ¹: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

comment by jplatte · 2017-07-28 · in Ask HN: What technical decisions make VS Code a better Electron app?

…programs written in Rust yet", though. Oh, I thought of something better than just the compiler: https://github.com/burntsushi/ripgrep#installation * homebrew * chocolatey * arch * gentoo * fedora * RHEL/CentOS * Nix All have at least one…

comment by steveklabnik · 2017-07-12 · in Why you should, actually, rewrite some of it in Rust

…ripgrep on pretty much any Linux because I distribute statically compiled binaries: $ curl -LO 'https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/download/0.5.2/ripgrep-0.5.2-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz' $ tar xf ripgrep-0.5.2-*.tar.gz $…

comment by burntsushi · 2017-07-04 · in Skip grep, use awk

…I've switched to using it as my daily driver for text search and am incredibly happy with it. [1]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep [2]: http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/ Edit: I confused awk with ag originally leading to this…

comment by beefsack · 2017-07-04 · in Skip grep, use awk

…For example, they don't benchmark GNU grep/ripgrep's `-f` flag for searching many regexes.) [1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/benchsuite... [2] - https://github.com/petdance/ack3/issues/42

comment by burntsushi · 2017-07-04 · in Skip grep, use awk

…[5] https://github.com/servo/servo [6] https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty [7] https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep [8] https://github.com/valarauca/car

comment by valarauca1 · 2017-06-28 · in Increasing Rust’s Reach

…Silver Searcher and/or RipGrep for text searching. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

comment by TheGrassyKnoll · 2017-06-26 · in Ask HN: How can I get better at bash?

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Ripgrep combines the usability of the Silver Searcher with the raw speed of grep

story by da02 · 2017-05-31 · 0 comments