ripgrep

What people said

• “This used to happen to me constantly. I fixed it accidentally in switching to Ripgrep which defaults to recursively searching the current directory. Bonus: it parallelises too! Honourable mention also to FZF which not only makes it trivial to locate a file in a directory…”

• “In the same vein as silver searcher, I'd mention ripgrep:”

• “That chart is now quite out of date. I don't think there are any substantial features present in ag that are absent from rg. See my note in the README:”

• “Performance isn't necessarily the only reason that folks use ripgrep. A lot of people like its smart filtering by default. Some don't though. See:”

• “RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches (283 points)”

• “Ripgrep AI Policy (106 points)”

• “Ripgrep 15.0 (476 points)”

• “Ripgrep 14 Released (297 points)”