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🔍 ugrep 7.8 file pattern searcher -- a user-friendly, faster, more capable grep replacement. 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

18 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 6 stories, 12 comments · first 2020-08-09 · latest 2026-06-09

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  1. …most of the way there relative to gnu grep, and should be fully grep compatible in terms of syntax: https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep#aliases Claude Code may ship with ugrep already.
    comment by celrod · 2026-06-09 · in Is grep all you need? How agent harnesses reshape agentic search
  2. There is also upgrep, which is quite a good project. https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep
    comment by dinkumthinkum · 2026-03-24 · in Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)
  3. try ugrep https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep ... if you don't switch over in a day, I'll eat my shoe. It supports all the common grep options and you can split view in the -Q mode and it is smart enough to open your $editor at the line…
    comment by kristopolous · 2025-03-19 · in fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
  4. …https://github.com/cantino/mcfly just watch the demo, you'll see * ugrep: grep with a powerful tui: https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep - I became an instant convert. * batcat: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat ... you really need to use some of…
    comment by kristopolous · 2025-02-09 · in Some terminal frustrations
  5. …were started around the same time in 2019. The initial git commits were about five weeks apart: https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep/commit/e37c986dd842adc3b2c2... https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all/commit/16b4277d361ce...
    comment by mbrubeck · 2024-09-17 · in Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, etc.
  6. I really like the fuzzy match feature. Useful for typos or off by 1-2 characters. https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep#fuzzy
    comment by jftuga · 2023-12-31 · in Ugrep – a more powerful, fast, user-friendly, compatible grep
  7. ugrep has full SSE/AVX support https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep/blob/a3acf863803a755ff8da8c...
    comment by xxs · 2022-07-28 · in Programming languages endorsed for server-side use at Meta
  8. When I need a faster grep, I love ugrep ( https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep - especially when I am searching compressed logs for debugging).
    comment by infocollector · 2021-10-24 · in Feature comparison of ack, ag, Git-grep, grep and ripgrep
  9. I've been using ugrep these days ( https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep ) - and am pretty happy with it.
    comment by infocollector · 2021-06-14 · in Ripgrep 13.0
  10. But how about ugrep? https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep
    comment by joseluisq · 2021-03-16 · in Ripgrep is faster than {grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift} (2016)
  11. …I am the author of ugrep. Here are my 2 cents. So what is going on with the new ugrep tool? https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep As a small organization specializing in open source software we needed a search tool like grep but updated to…
    comment by engelen · 2020-08-14 · in Ugrep: Faster Fuzzy Interactive Grep
  12. …easily beating grep, ripgrep, silver searcher, hyperscan, sift, etc. see performance benchmarks https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep#speed
    comment by lihaitao · 2020-08-09 · in Ugrep: Ultra fast grep with interactive query UI