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A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.

128 mentions on Hacker News by 103 people: 10 stories, 118 comments · first 2012-04-02 · latest 2025-03-11

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  1. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
    comment by 7histle · 2013-07-10 · in Grep too slow? Use git-grep
  2. The Silver Searcher is where it's at: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
    comment by MatthewPhillips · 2013-07-09 · in Grep too slow? Use git-grep
  3. If you like ack (and who doesn't???), you might like more or less `ag`: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
    comment by thezilch · 2013-06-09 · in ffind: a sane replacement for command line file search
  4. btw, here is ag, which also looks .xignore files: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
    comment by cfrss · 2013-05-22 · in Go Replace - simple and fast search and replace tool for command line
  5. …There are various editor plugins for Ag, e.g. Ag.vim[2] based on mileszs' excellent Ack.vim[3]. [1] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher [2] https://github.com/epmatsw/ag.vim [3] https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim
    comment by saidajigumi · 2013-04-19 · in Ack 2.0 has been released
  6. …now and it's been completely awesome in both performance and functionality compared to Ack v1. [1] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
    comment by saidajigumi · 2013-04-19 · in Ack 2.0 has been released
  7. Yesterday, I discovered the_silver_searcher: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher I think you might like it.
    comment by sepeth · 2013-03-07 · in Unix tricks
  8. Also ag is faster and better than grep: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
    comment by btipling · 2013-03-07 · in Unix tricks
  9. From the github page ( https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher ): ack blahblahblah ~/code 6.59s user 1.94s system 99% cpu 8.547 total ag blahblahblah ~/code 1.39s user 1.81s system 229% cpu 1.396 total
    comment by djbender · 2013-02-27 · in Improved searching with The Silver Searcher
  10. …now :-) let g:ctrlp_user_command = 'ag --nogroup --nobreak --noheading --nocolor -g "" %s ' [1] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
    comment by atjoslin · 2013-02-20 · in Vim After 11 Years
  11. Or even 'ag' (the silver searcher). Like ack, but "better". https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
    comment by lachenmayer · 2013-01-08 · in Favorite Unix Commands
  12. Ack is sweet. Ag is sweeter: http://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
    comment by qwertyboy · 2012-12-24 · in Use ack instead of grep to parse text files
  13. Per the README on the github page, instructions for building ag for Windows are here: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/wiki/Windows The author forewarns that "[i]t's complicated".
    comment by npongratz · 2012-11-28 · in GNU grep is 10x faster than Mac grep
  14. I wrote a mostly-clone of Ack in C: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher . Output format and most flags are the same. Besides the speed, most users won't notice a difference. I spared no effort in optimizing. Pthreads, mmap(),…
    comment by AngryParsley · 2012-11-28 · in GNU grep is 10x faster than Mac grep
  15. Now, if we need something 3x-5x faster than Ack... https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
    comment by dchest · 2012-11-28 · in GNU grep is 10x faster than Mac grep
  16. …https://github.com/ggreer/fsevents-tools . To build it, just run autogen.sh. For a "real" project, https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher , I have the same set-up: Makefile.am and configure.ac with no generated code in the repo. It…
    comment by AngryParsley · 2012-11-14 · in Tips for C libraries on GNU/Linux
  17. …but I agree: whitelisting file types isn't fun. I wrote a mostly drop-in replacement for Ack in C ( https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher ) and the biggest difference in behavior is the file filtering. Ag searches all text files by…
    comment by AngryParsley · 2012-07-10 · in Coming Home to Vim
  18. …and Argentina. During my travels, I managed to do quite a bit of work on The Silver Searcher: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher . It's a clone of ack[1], but written in C instead of Perl. I've done a decent amount of…
    comment by AngryParsley · 2012-04-02 · in Ask HN: What did you build in March?